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Occai;) C^ity 

:^uicle Book 
.v.-.-..^i^.-^-.©i rectory 



OCEAN CITY, 

New Jersey. 



By NAin TOWNSEiND KISH. 



Robert Kisher, 



THE PIONEER 



Real Estate md kf^w^pi ^ip 

AND BROKER. 

Conveyancer, 

Commissioner of Deeds, 

and Notary Public. 

Can supply purchasers with desirable investments at all 
times. Ocean front Cottages and Hotel Sites a specialty. 
Parties seeking to get hold of large plots for fntnre develop- 
ment can be accommodated. I^ots for sale on club or syndicate 
plan. Rents and Renting. 

Life and Fire Insurance 

Given careful attention, and the utmost 
security guaranteed in every department. 

BUSINESS OPRICE ON IVIOST PROMINRNT CORNKR 

Seventh St. and Asbury Ave , Ocean City. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



A Well Spent Quarter of a Century. 

We read almost every day of anniversaries, celebrated or to be celebrated, 
of various benevolent or beneficent institutions. Some are twenty-five, some 
fifty, some a hundred or more years old, and are all celebrating years of use- 
fulness and well doing. 

One of these beneficent institutions, though a private one, is soon to enter 
upon its twenty-fifth year of usefulness, having accomplished wonders of heal- 
ing in diseases of long standing, many of them pronounced incurable, relieving 
and curing a great number of physical ills, such as colds, catarrh, headache, 
asthma, consumption, rheumatism, dyspepsia, ner\'ous prostration, etc. 

Drs. Starkley cS: Palen, the sole proprietors of the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment, are ever ready to furnish unimpeachable evidence and an}' infor- 
mation required, free of charge, on application. 

If you write or call and see them, giving an account of your case, they will 
give you a candid opinion. If the case is a desperate one, even for Compound 
Ox^-gen, they will tell you so. Whether you decide to try the remedy or not, 
there is no charge for consultation. Book of 200 pages sent free. 

We give below a letter from Bishop Wm. Taylor : 

" The Oxygen Treatment you sent me a year ago for C. O. Harris, one of 
my missionaries, whose life was in jeopardy on account of lung troubles and a 
severe cough, he now testifies has greatly benefited him. He has entirely re- 
covered his health, married a wiie, returned to his work in Africa, and taken 
his wife with him. 

BISHOP WM. TAYLOR, 

150 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 

We are permitted to refer to many members of the Philadelphia and New 
Jersey Conferences who have been benefited by the Compound Oxygen. 

Dr. Palen is a well known summer resident of Ocean City, and Treasurer 
of the Ocean City Association. 

DRS. STAR KEY & PALEN, 

1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., TORONTO, CANADA. 



ii OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

The Ocean City Real Es^^^^ 

W. E. MASSEY & CO., 
"fj^eal Estate and In^nrance ^AlPii^^. 

Lots for Sale or Exchange. Houses to Rent. Deeds, Bonds, 

and Mortgages Drawn. Loans Negotiated. 

A number of Bargains in Lots. 

We respectfully solicit a share of your Real Estate patronage. 

W. K, MASSBY & CO., 

811 Asbury Ave., Ocean City, N. J. 

NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE. P. 0. BOX 335. 

16 YEARS EXPERIENCE. 



'THEOPH CLUNN, 

Practical - Upholsterer, 

OCEAN SIDE OF WEST AVE., 



ABOVE TKNTH, 



Carpets Made and Laid 
Curtains and Shades Made Up and Hung Satisfaction Guaranteed. 

Furniture Repaired ^^ 

Awning Work a Specialty 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. ill 

J. S. RUSH, 



Sip Painter 



COR. llth ST. AND CENTRAL AVE.. 



AUG , 6 1895 



Work done on Glass, Tin, Iron, Wood,: etc. / 

Ornamental Designs of all kinds. / 



f rescoing and |] ecorating in (j il and ^ater [j olors 



SPACES TO LET AT STEAMBOAT PIER ON BUILDING FOR 



^ign Di^plai] AdVeftii^iiig. 



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IV OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

OCEAN CITY SENTINEL 

Ocean City, New Jersey. 

E. CURTIS ROBINSON, Editor and Prop'r. 

A spicy seven-column weekly paper, with a very large circulation. Published on 
the border and circulates in three adjoining counties, as well as nearly every State of 
the Union. Advertisers will be wise in giving the SENTINEL a trial order, as our city 
is visited by thousands from a distance. 

Will be issued every afternoon (Sundays excepted) during July and August. 

BRILLIANT WITH LOCAL NEWS. 

MOTEL ARRIVALS. ' 



H. CURTIS ROBIITSOIT, 

Peal Estate and josuraoce As^nt 



Cottages for Sale, Rent or Exchange. Desirable Building Lots 
at Bargains. Insurance Placed in Reliable Companies. 



744-46 Asbury Ave., Ocean City, N. J. 



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1895= 



...OCEAN CITY... 

Guide Book and Directory 

Ocean (^i^y, ^ew Jersey. 



...Containing a list of... 

Permanent and Temporary Residents, Street Directory, 

Historical, Biographical and Descriptive 

Sketches, Wrecks, etc. 



Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1895, 

By Mary Townsend Rush, 

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 

(All rights reserved.) 



i^Gcatien and Boundary. 

I 

Ocean City is focated on an isfand on ifie jQeW Jersey Coast 
formerCy ^noWn as ^ecf^'s ^eacH, sixty mifes soutReast of ^fiifa- 
defpRia, ten mifes sontft of jTtfantic City, and tRirty mifes nortR of 
Cape DdZay. ^Re isfand Ras for its Boundary tRese 'paters, and 
is rioted for its margin of seven mifes of Rard, smootR ocean 
strand, two Rundred feet Zvide, and efeven mites of ^ay, Sound 
and Tnfet sRores : 

XlortR — Great Sgg JfarSor Tnfet. 

SoutR — Corson's Irifet. 

Sast — ^ttantic Ocean. 

'i^est — ^I'^o.t Sgg 3£ar6or and ^Rorofare Sound. 
Ocean Citij is easy of access 6y Way of ^esi fjersey ^. ^., 
wRicR foffoWs an afmost direct tine from ^RifadefpRia across tRe 
State of XleW (Jersey, and conveys passengers 6y express trains, 
WitRout cRange, to tlie Reart of tRe city. 



& 




ROBERT FISHER, MAYOR OF OCEAN CITY. 





COUNCILMAN S. B. SAMPSON. COUNCILMAN H. C. SUTTON. 




COUNCILMAN IRA S. CHAMPION. 



" (MiTTily carol the revelliag gales 

Ovet the islands free * * * 
^nd the spangle dances in bight and bay * * * 
(Ftom the green seabank the rose down trails 

,T,o the happy brimme'd sea." 

" ^on deep bark goes 

^here traffic blows 
i£rom lands of sun to lands of snows, 

This happier one 

Its course is run 
'Eiom lands of snow to lands of sun." 

tHE wonders of Nature must fore\-er stand unrivalled. 
]\Ian, with all his ingenuity, backed by the marvelous 
developments of modern science and intellectual progress, 
will remain in the background in his efforts to produce any- 
thing so beautiful as the glory and magnificence with which the 
heavenh' architect adorned the world. 

The physicians of modern times, reinforced by all the para- 
phernalia of medical science and the schools of learning, have 
been taught lessons from the healing breath and the health- 
laving waters of the grandest of these creations, the Ocean. 
Down to its shores flock invalids, worn and wear>' with the bur- 
den of the bod}- ; school children, white and wan, and business 
men with nerves unstrung and shattered. Nature lays her hand 
upon her children and restores the waning strength to the 
weary body, paints the white face with the ruddy hue of health, 



4 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

looses the tension, and soothes into an indescribable peace and 
rest the overtaxed nerves. The gratitnde beaming through the 
results of these ministrations arises in the sincerest psalm of 
praise and adoration ever offered to the Creator. Nature has 
smiled in peculiar beneficence on the island upon which Ocean 
City is located. It lies near the thirty-ninth degree of north 
latitude ; on or near this parallel are the Azore Islands, noted 
for their equable climate ; the Balearic Islands of the Mediter- 
ranean Sea; Southern Italy, with her vineyards and orange 
groves, bearing fruit in winter ; the Ionian Isles ; Arabia, the 
land of the date-palm and tamarind ; the central belt of the 
Flowery Kingdom, and the Yosemite Valley of California. 
Whether some upheaval of nature of a period known only to 
Him "Who laid the corner-stone thereof when the morning 
stars sang together," or, to judge by its alluvial character, the 
ocean in its ever encroaching, ever receding surges, laid at the 
feet of the continent this emerald jewel in its setting of silver 
sands, we know not. That it was created for our enjoyment is 
sounded in the murmur of the ancient cedars, in the ripple of 
the waves and in the full diapason of the north wind as it lashes 
into fury the turbulent billows. 

The happy location on the continent, equi-distant from the 
bleak rock-bound shores of Maine and the sand)^ borders swept 
by the hot breath of the tropics of the land of Florida, favors 
it with an unparalled climate. Added to these advantages, the 
Gulf Stream, sweeping up the coast, tempers the winter and 
renders the island at that season a mild, healthful and delight- 
ful resort. So equable is the temperature the seasons seem to 
drift imperceptibly into one another. 

The variety and abundance of its flora is a source of constant 
wonder. February ushers in the season of flowers with the 
tiny scarlet blossoms of an arctic plant nestling close beside the 
tropical cactus, which later on bursts into yellow gorgeousness. 
^larch sends a thrill through the invisible underground life 




EX-MAYOR II. G. STEELMAN. 





EX-COUNCILMAN, J. C. STEELMAN. EX-COUNCILMAN J. F. HAND. 




EX- MAYOR J. E. PRYOR, M.D. 




EMMA L. SACK— CAPTAIN LEWIS RISEEY. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 5 

and in quick reponse crocuses, h)-acinths and tulips sprincr 
into bloom. April develops into infinite beauty a wealth o'f 
wild flowers indigenous to the soil of both tropical and temper- 
ate regions. 

Among the gnarled and straggling branches of the cedars 
and in the boughs of the berry laden hollies, the cardinal or 
Virginia mocking bird trills in an abandon of ecstacy to his 
busy mate ; the brown thrush lilts in full clarionet tones of the 
Southern rice fields, as his cousin, the robin, sways and bows 
on a neighboring branch in sublime indifference to every sound 
save his own liquid melody. The yellow oriole darts hither 
and thither like a sunbeam, while the ubiquitous song sparrow, 
recalling the prowess of his ancestor in killing cock robing 
challenges alike the blue bird, swallow, lark and nuthatch to 
intrude upon his domain, in the firm conviction of his ability 
to conquer the entire feathered tribe. Long wavering lines of 
wild ducks, geese and brant move rapidly overhead from the 
bay to the ocean, while the bald eagle, albatross and sea gull, 
in their majestic sweeping flight, render by contrast the "^con- 
fusion greater of the fluttering flocks of curlew, plover and 
snipe. 

Deer were once upon the list of its fauna. These have long 
since disappeared from the island but are still frequently sho^t 
on the neighboring mainland. A strange feature of animal 
life was seen up till a few }'ears ago in numbers of wild cats. 
The island became inhabited by them in this manner : " Beach 
Parties," the memory of which is dear to the hearts of all the 
old residents of the adjacent mainland, consisted of young 
people who sailed across Great Egg Harbor Bay to the island 
for a day's recreation in fishing and bathing, never forgettincr 
to bring along a fiddler, and down on the beach at low tide a 
terpsichorean fling was indulged in with a hilarity that would 
startle society now. These parties frequently brought super- 
fluous cats from their homes which the>- turned loose. Tabbv's 



6 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

antipathy to water prevented her retnrn, but, nothing daunted 
by this misfortune, she exercised her nine life prerogative and 
commenced to forage on her own responsibility. Gradually 
her numbers increased and from a sleek, velvety, luxury-loving 
creature she developed through successive generations her 
original size and ferocity. 

About the time of the disappearance of wildcats the last of a 
herd of wild cattle, which had undergone a transformation from 
a domestic to a wild nature, were also exterminated. This herd 
originated in some stray calves which were not claimed when 
the'' island was used for pasture land only. Alany an old 
sportsman remembers Great Egg Harbor Bay and its treasures 
of oysters and shellfish of every description, long before the 
island was inhabited. How they sailed over its waters or out 
of the inlets upon the ocean for deep sea fishing, returning 
from both ocean and bay laden then as now with drum fish, 
sheepshead, snapping mackerel, blue fish, hague croakers, 
weak fish or mullet, each in its stated season. September, 
1890, snapping mackerel chased a school of weak fish into the 
surf and it was estimated that eleven tons were caught by the 
residents of the city. This frequently occurs, though they seldom 
come in in such great numbers. Among the curiosities of 
the finny tribe are the quaint little sea horse, the sea robin, burr 
fish, shovel-nose .and hammer-head, sharks, sting ray and toad 
fish. The sea spider sprawls back to its native element in all 
its ungainliness when brought up by a sly wave, the king crab 
burrows silently beneath its huge umbrella like covering till 
it disappears under the sand. The pugilistic soldier crab scut- 
tles over the ground, bearing defiantly aloft its huge lone claw 
in flat contradiction to all known laws of gravitation. Here 
may be found ample material for reflection upon the saying, 
" As happy as a clam at high tide," for those who understand 
the nature of a bivalve, which to the casual observer is not^ at 
anv time given to evidences of an exalted degree of levity. 




REV. K. 15. L/KE. 



d 




OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 7 

At the north point of the island, where the waters of the inlet 
wash across the sands, nianose and razor clams find seductive 
ground. It is no unusual sight to see the shore on the opposite 
side dotted with visitors of the beautiful resort of Longport as 
well as the Ocean City side, engaged in gathering these delicate 
and toothsome shellfish. The quahog of the bay and the surf 
clam of the ocean are alwa}-s in demand. A sword fish was 
captured in the bay November 21, 1883, weighing two hundred 
and forty pounds ; the sword measured four feet. A sunfish 
washed ashore in front of the Hotel Brighton June 27th, 1883, 
weighing five hundred pounds. October 8, 1891, a rorqual 
whale, sixty-eight feet long, was cast on the beach. May, 1894, 
a dolphin was thrown up on the shore where it gave birth to a 
young one. The skeletons of the whale and the large dolphin, 
and the body of the young dolphin are now on exhibition at 
the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, where there is 
scarcely a specimen in the New Jersey collection of shells and 
ocean forms that may not be found on the beach at Ocean City. 
A wealth of ocean life is continually coming up on the strand, 
from the highest and most gigantic forms on down through the 
lower orders, arousing our admiration at every step in the auro- 
ral tints upon the curved scroll of the shell, the delicate carving 
of the sea urchin, the prismatic lights of the medusa, still down 
to those dubious forms which mark the confines of the two great 
divisions of organic life, animal and plant, apparently having so 
little in common with each other, though always mingling with 
the former, specimens are cast up from sub-aqueous forest"^, in a 
wonder of profusion. 

In the fairy pencilled seaweed, 
That floats in the quivering deep : 
In the soft wind's magic music, 
As it lulls the waves to sleep ; 
In the storm king's wild battallions, 
And the seabird's screaming brood, 
In the unwritten lore of nature. 
Is revealed the Creator, God. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



(2rFeat E^6 Harbor^ 



" Where gulls and eagles rest at need, 
Where either side by sea or sound, 
Kingfishers, cranes and divers feed 
And mallard ducks abound. 

" Where, busy in their grassy homes 

Woodcock and snipe the hollows haunt." 

.^Jj^YING on the opposite side of the island from the ocean is 
L this pictnresqne, land-locked sheet of water, teeming with 
^^ bine-fish, sheepshead, sea trout, o}-sters and shell-fish of 
every description. It received its name from the great number 
of gulls' eggs found in the surrounding meadows. The gentle 
ebb and flow of the tide, submerging and revealing the emerald 
beauty of its tiny islands, the white-winged sea craft passing 
rapidly to and fro, or resting lazih- on the blue w^aters, the 
throbbing steamers, with their long wakes of white foam, form 
an endless panorama, from which the weary toiler, the dispirited 
pleasure seeker, or the invalid can never grow wear}'. 

Away to the southwest. Thoroughfare Sound sweeps out 
through the meadows, till it is lost to view in the shadow of the 
pines. Following the line of the bay, now curving to the west, 
Beasley's Point is plainly visible. Sweeping down past this 
little hamlet the waters of Tuckahoe, Middle and Great Egg 
Horbor rivers empty into the bay. In the dim perspective, 
masts and sails are outlined against the sky ; in nearer view 
schooners, laden with wood, oysters and freight of \-arious kinds, 
are hurrying out of the ocean, bound for different points all 
alonof the coast. 




THE TRAYMORE. A. C. CRETH, PROP. 




HOTEL BRIGHTON, 7th ST. AND OCEAN AVE. R. R. SOOY, PROP. 



THE FIRST HOTEL BTILT ON THE ISLAND. 




THE STRAND, R. W. EDWARDS, PROPRIETOR. 



FULL OCEAN VIEW 
ELECTRIC LIGHTS 




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THE EMMETT. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 9 

Historic Somers Point next marks the curve of the shore. 
From its wharves have sailed out brave soldiers of the Re\'0- 
lution and many daring and skillful navigators. Many of these 
left behind them wives, sweethearts and mothers, who differed 
only from the heroines of fiction in that the tragedy and pathos 
of their lives was real, for as they left the port, they sailed out 
of the lives of those standing on shore, and all that ever floated 
back was a rumor, perhaps, of a fragment of wreck cast up on 
some distant coast, bearing the name or some trace of the ves- 
sel. Still following the line of the shore, now lost to view, and 
now clear and distinct. Anchoring Point greets the eye. This 
was a noted spot during the Re\-olutionary War. Its tradi- 
tional lore is wildly romantic. A number of attempts have 
been made to unearth treasure said to be buried there by pirates. 
The last were made b}- a wealthy but eccentric iron and oil 
prospector, of Pittsburg, wdio came for the purpose also of loca- 
ting, with a peculiar di\'ining rod, the Spanish vessel Lagadere, 
said to have sunk near that place, laden with gold and silver 
coin. The superstition that those who search for the buried 
treasure will meet death b)- drowning was strengthened when 
his body was cast up on the beach at Longport. Beneath the 
one lone tree left of a forest of pines are said to lie the bones of 
one of the most noted pirates of those who infested the waters 
of the Atlantic. 

Longport is located on the point of land which forms the 
last boundary of the bay, and is divided from Ocean City by 
Great Egg Harbor Inlet. On the opposite side it is washed by 
the ocean for miles. This place was founded by M. Simpson 
INIcCullough in 1882. Its elevation above the sea level and the 
absence of swamp lands and marshes, together with acquired 
sanitar}' arrangements, complete in ever}- detail, render it pecu- 
liarly pleasing and healthful. A short ride on the electric cars, 
along the beach, in full view of the ocean, receiving all the 
benefit of the cool breezes, brings one to Atlantic City, where 



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OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



every means of amusement and the finest markets in the State 
may be found. The architecture of Longport is imposing and 
beautiful, and is in perfect harmony with the entire plan of the 
cit}', which promises to rise to a degree of refined elegance not 
excelled on the coast of Southern New Jersey. 




THE ALBANY, 945 ASBURY AVE. MRS. CHAS. BROWN, PROP. 




RESIDENCE OF J. S. RUSH, COR. iitli ST. AND CENTRAL AVE. 




EX-COUNCIIvMAN PARKER MILLER. 

FOR OVBR TWENTY YEARS THE ONLY RESIDENT OF THE ISLAND. 




THE VANDALIA, 725 CENTRAL AVE. MRS. BURLEY, PROP. 



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OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. II 



yisCorical aQd Dcscmptive. 



tHE Island was formerly known as Peck's Beach. There 
may be found still further back in the archives of London 
a document, in which it was known as Pete's Beach. 
Of the primitive inhabitants we have no history save the 
meagre records and traditions of the white man. In 1623 
Captain May sailed up the Delaware Bay and gave his name to 
its north cape, from which the count}- in which Peck's Beach is 
located takes its name, and he, together with other navigators, 
report Indians all along the coast. Prior to this time we are 
told of two tribes which held the land from " Sandy Barnegate 
down to the south cape " (IMay) whose chiefs bore the names of 
Tirans and Tiascans. These are doubtless the tribes of Keche- 
ineches and Sorgehunnocks, branches of the great tribe of Dela- 
wares or Leni Lenapes mentioned by De Vries in his journals 
of 1 63 1-2-3, ^^^ which he frequently refers to the Indians of 
what is now Egg Harbor. But little remains to us, however, of 

" These legends and traditions, 
With the odors of the forest, 
With the dew and damp of meadows, 
With the curling smoke of wigwams." 

In the flight of the same w^ater fowl we hear no intelligible 
sounds. To us is not given to understand the language in 
which they imparted to these children of nature her mysteries. 

" All the wild fowl sang them to him, 
In the moorlands and the fenlands, 
Chetowaik, the plover, sang them ; 
Mahng, the loon, the wild goose, Wawa ; 
The blue heron, the Shushufjah. " 



12 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Of his conquests of battle, his council fires, his deer-skin 
wigwam, the hunt and chase, the records are fast locked in the 
graves and shell mounds* which alone remain. As is well 
known. Captain May was followed b}' other navigators, who, in 
turn, established and abandoned settlements until 1664, when 
the first permanent settlement was made b}' the English, at 
Elizabethtown. On the twentieth of ]\Iarch, of the same year, 
Charles 11. made an extensi\-e grant of territory to his brother, 
the Duke of York, and on the twenty-third of June, a portion of 
this territory, consisting of over fi\-e million acres, was conveyed 
to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Cartaret. The following is a 
portion of a copy of the instrument of conve}'ance, secured by 
the publisher from England, and in this the bounds of New 
Jersey are, for the first time, regularh- defined : 

" This indenture, made the three and twentieth day of June, 
in the sixteenth }^ear of the Raigne of our Sovereign, Lord 
Charles, the Second, by the Grace of God of England, Scot- 
land, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith 

Anno Domini 1664. Betw^een his Royal Highness James, Duke 
of York and i\lban}-. Earl of Ulster, Lord High Admiral of 
England and Ireland, Constable of Dover Castle, Lord Warden 
of the Cinque Ports and Governor of Portsmouth, of the one 
part, John Lord Berkeley, Baron of Stratton and one of His 
Majesty's most honorable Privy Council and Sir George Cartaret 
of Sattrum, in the County of Devon, Knight, and one of His 
IMajesty's most honorable Pri\-y Council, of the other part, Wit- 
nesseth, that said James, Duke of York, for and in consideration 
of ten sJiiUiiigs of lawful mone}- of England, to him in hand 
paid, by these presents doth bargain and sell unto the said John 
Lord Berkley and Sir George Cartaret all the tract of land adja- 
cent to New England, and lying and being to the westward of 
Long Island. Bounded on the east by the main sea and part by 



"Remains of these may also be found by the antiquarian upon the neighboring 
Longport Beach, 



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OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 1 3 

Hudson's river, and hath upon the west Delaware Bav or river, 
and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape ]\Iay 
at the month of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far 
as the northernmost branch of said bay or river of Delaware, 
which is in forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude, and 
worketh over thence in a straight line to Hudson's river — which 
said tract of land is hereafter to be called by the name or names 
of Nova Cesarea, or New Jersey." 

But sixteen }-ears later one hundred and fift}'-one of the 
inhabitants of the part of the State then known as West New 
Jersey signed the first constitution of government created by the 
people themselves. The thirtieth name on the list of signers 
w^as that of Thomas Budd, to whom, on October 7th, 1695, the 
first survey of Peck's Beach was made. The land was held by 
him for fifty-five years ; its chief use was for grazing cattle and 
obtaining medicinal plants, of which sassafras and bayberry 
were the principal ones, and which, together with the great 
quantities which grew on the mainland, were shipped to Hol- 
land and other foreign ports. 

We are also informed that Thomas Budd was present at the 
death scene of the great Delaware chief, the Christian Ocka- 
nickin, to whom he addressed his last words. These words 
were of a religious character, and are preserved in literature as 
one of the gems of poetic beauty left to us by a race whose 
peculiar gift of oratory was unequalled by any other uncivilized 
nation. 

In 1750 John Somers bought five hundred acres in the 
northern part ; this tract remained in the possession of the 
Somers family for one hundred and thirty years, or until the 
entire island was bought by the Ocean City Association, in 
1880. The first houses known to be built and occupied by 
white settlers were those of the Kittles and Robinsons. Joseph 
Robinson, now living on the island, is a descendant of the first 
named family. For over twenty years Parker Miller and family 



14 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

were the only residents of the island. He bnilt his first resi- 
dence on the site of what is now Thorn's hardware store. He 
soon afterwards bnilt the honse No. 730 Asbnry a\'enne, nsing 
for a kitchen the cabin of a wrecked steamer. 

The Origin of Ocean City. 

Three Christian ministers, brothers by the ties of blood, 
Revs. S. Wesley, James E. and Ezra B. Lake, sons of Hon. S. 
Lake, had for some time directed their attention toward 
the establishing of a seaside resort where the sanctit}' of the 
Sabbath shonld be preserved and the sale of alcoholic liquors 
prohibited. In the summer of 1879, while sailing across Great 
Egg Harbor Bay, they were impressed with the location and 
altitude of the well timbered island lying to the eastward of 
their course. September loth following they met at the home 
of their father, at Pleasantville, and in company with another 
clergyman proceeded from thence to the place designated. 
Landing close to where large and commodious steamers now 
sweep up to a magnificent pier they moored their little craft 
and w^aded through the mud to shore. Several hours were 
spent in following the tortuous windings of the cowpath 
through the otherwise impenetrable brush until weary and 
footsore they arri\-ed at the northern point upon a wooded 
knoll overlooking the island. To the east lay the ocean 
in its never-ending wonder of infinitude. The line marked 
by the command, " Hitherto shalt thou come and no fur- 
ther," was strewn with shells, seaweed and drift-wood as 
far as the eye could reach. To the north the ebbing tide 
laid bare the shining sands of the Inlet, to the west Great 
Egg Harbor Bay stretched away for miles into the main 
land a quiet silver sheet. The sun in its decline was casting 
long quivering beams of red light over the broken swirl of 
waters on Great Egg Harbor bar and piling banks of crimson 
and gold and purple vapor in the western sky in the peculiar 




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beauty of an ocean sunset. Here, impressed with the grandeur 
of nature in her primeval condition, the quartette bowed 
beneath one of the patriarchal cedars* which had kept watch 
upon the shore for centuries, and in a service of prayer and 
song dedicated to Almighty God the projected work. 

Ocean City Association. 

The fine executive ability of these men was shown by 
the fact that October 20th following a company had been 
formed with the above name, with Dr. W. B. Wood, 
of Philadelphia, as President. Active operations towards 
the fulfillment of its object were immediately begun by 
securing the land and issuing stock. The first topographical 
survey was made by W. Lake, February 13, 1880. The part 
known as Section A was staked off into avenues, streets and 
lots. This was rapidly cleared of brushwood and timber, thou- 
sands of feet of ditching were dug for drainage and hundreds of 
loads of brushwood were placed at the north point of the island 
for the purpose of gathering the moving sand and extending the 
ocean front. The first public sale of lots took place in May, 
1880 ; these sold for about $50.00 each. The first deed was 
made to S. T. Champion. Lots to the value of $85,000 were 
soon disposed of and another portion of land, Section B, survey- 
ed and laid out. A wharf one hundred and twenty-five feet long 
and seventy-two feet wide was built at an enormous cost ; this 
was connected with the city by a good road over the meadows 
and a board w^alk running parallel with it the entire distance. 
A board walk was also built along the ocean front. The first 
building erected was the little Pioneer Cottage on the rear of the 
lot now occupied by the Association offices. It was used as a 
boarding-house for the mechanics then at work on the island, 
and was sometimes occupied by forty men. The first building 

♦This landmark now occupies a position at the west corner of the public park. 



l6 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

of any considerable size was that of the Bellevne, erected bv I. 
B. Smith. It was npon the site of this honse, at the corner of 
Seventh street and Asbnry avenne, that the first fnneral services 
ever held on the island were conducted, those of Harry McCann, 
a boy killed by falling from a cart while hauling sand. The 
funeral sermon was preached by Rev, W. H. Burrell to an au- 
dience of fifty mechanics and laborers seated in the open air on 
piles of lumber and building materials. The first hotel, the 
Ocean House, now Hotel Brighton, was also built by I. B. 
Smith. A railroad was built from Pleasantville to Somers 
Point; this was formally opened October 26, 1880. A steam- 
boat was purchased to ply between Somers Point and Ocean 
City, thus completing connection with the outside world. A 
turnpike company was organized to build a road from Beasley's 
Point to Ocean City, which, together with a bridge over Thor- 
oughfare Sound, was completed the following Spring. Thus, 
in an incredibly short time, was the foundation laid and the 
work advanced of a most brilliant enterprise. Rev. E. B. Lake 
was appointed Superintendent when the Association was organ- 
ized and has held the position ever since. Nature endowed him 
with the talents necessary for the work. He is associated with 
every movement of advancement in the city, few of which he is 
not the projector as well. There is not an acquired advantage 
of any resort upon the New Jersey coast that he has not thor- 
oughly investigated, and when found practicable directed all his 
energy toward securing the same object in Ocean City. The 
present officers and managers are : President, Rev. S. W. Lake ; 
Vice President, Rev. J. B. Graw ; Secretary and Superintendent, 
Rev. E. B. Lake ; Treasurer, Dr. G. E. Palen ; Directors, G. L. 
Horn, G. B. Langley, H. B. Howell, Rev. J. E. Lake, Rev. W. 
B. Wood. 



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OccaQ C^ity- 



tHE wildest imagination of the company of four clerg-ymen 
as they sailed back over Great Egg Harbor Bay from their 
first tour of investigation could not have conjured up 
visions of the result of the coming four years when an incorpor- 
ated city should stand as a monument of their enterprise. When 
vested with municipal powers, the officers carried forward with 
the same energy and determination the work of growth and de- 
velopment. Ocean City has ever maintained her precedence, 
not escaping vicissitudes and discouragements, but never yield- 
ing to defeat or disaster. Standing to-day upon the threshold 
of a second decade, so brief a period in the life of a city, its 
phenomenal growth is but accentuated in every line of review 
we trace. INIiles of paved and graded streets, electric railway 
and lights, steam railway, water works, beautiful homes of 
every description are the result of judicious and well-directed 
labor. The environments of Ocean City are such as irresisti- 
bly tend to the promotion of the city's growth, to the beauty 
of its location, to the inspiring of unbounded confidence in the 
future. The ideal of a seaside resort is here revealed. There 
are no manufactories with ceaseless hum of machinery suggest- 
ing toil and weariness. No furnaces poisoning the air with 
smoke and gas. No restless hurr}-ing to and fro of wear}- feet. 
An undefined sense of contentment and rest is borne upon the 
salt breezes and heard in the never-ending roll of the breakers 
along the shore. It is a noticeable fact that people who have 
once, resided here for a full year and enjoyed the beauty of each 
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l8 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

season are seldom satisfied to take up the old routine of life 
again. 

Health. 

An extended reputation as a health resort is being rapidly 
acquired. Hardly any form of disease originates in Ocean City, 
while upon many diseases acquired elsewhere, simple residence 
and the use of salt waters in the bathing season, together with 
liot sand baths, are more beneficial than ordinary medical 
treatment. There is no malaria. Asthma and lung diseases 
are unknown. There are but few of the many complaints to 
which humanity is subject that are not reduced to a minimum 
by the climatic forces. A glimpse of the army of tourists 
which annually gather here when they are returning to their 
homes in the fall, confirms this statement in the rounded limbs 
and rosy cheeks of once exhausted school children, the spring- 
ino- step of former invalids and the sparkling light and happy 
flush on faces that such a short time before were wan and hag- 
gard. 

Bathing. 

Surf bathing can be indulged in with the most beneficial 
results from the last of ]\Iay or first of June till late in October. 
Owino- to the wide shelving strand and the absence of quick- 
sands or dangerous ground, this luxury is permissible at either 
high or low tide, while the exhaustion caused by hea\7- 
breakers is never experienced. To those who prefer deep 
water bathing the bay affords every facility. 

Water. 

The most potent factor in the matter of health is fresh 
pure water. Nearl}' eight hundred feet below the surface 
courses have been tapped and Ocean City is supplied with cold 
sparkling water in an unlimited quantit}-, the purity of which 
has been tested by the noted chemist, Dr. Henry Leffman, of 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 1 9 

Philadelphia, in the following analysis. Dr. Leffman also says, 
in a personal interview, "the water is absolutely pure and 
healthy and far ahead of any artesian water known. 

-P^^ts 1,000,000 

Condition Clear 

Color None 

Reaction Alkaline 

Total solids (on evaporation) 7.00 

Ammonia by alk. permang. (albumoid ammonia) . Trace 

Ammonia (free ammonia) 0.12 

Nitrites None 

Nitrates None 

Poisonous metals None 

This is pure water, suitable for drinking and all household 
purposes. It remains clear and without odor on standino-." 

Yours, 

Henry Leffman. 



Sewer Drainage and Garbage Restrictions. 

Evidences of sanitary precaution are found in the entire 
absence of accumulations of an unhealthy character at any 
point. Arrangements have been completed for the introduc- 
tion of a system of drainage which fills the best scientific 
demand. It is already in operation in the hotels and will be 
extended throughout the city. There is not an alley that is not 
pure and clean. The Board of Health have adopted such 
measures as restrict the exposure of garbage in open vessels at 
cottages or hotels. The closed vessels are cleansed daily or 
semi-daily, as the temperature or condition of the weather 
demands, and the garbage disposed of according to the best 
sanitarv reg-ulations. 



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Fire. 

Fire plugs are placed at suitable distances apart throughout 
the city. A company of fifty members is ready to respond to 
calls at any moment. There have been but three destructive 
fires ever known on the island. Those of two houses located at 
the corner of Sixth street and Wesley avenue, September 15, 
1883 ; Patterson's drug store, Asbury avenue, below Sixth 
street, October 12, 1884, and the Adams' Casino, along the 
boardwalk, at Ninth street, June 12, 1893. The residence of 
A. B. Thomas, Fifteenth street and Wesley avenue, was dam- 
aged to the extent of about $800 in 1893. 

Lights. 

The city is brilliantly lighted by electricity. Lights of 
2,000 candle power, elevated twenty feet above the ground, illu- 
minate the streets at the intersections. The latest improved ap- 
pliances of every kind are used in controlling this magical and 
mysterious agent. Incandescent lights are used in the business 
houses and cottages. 

Railroad Facilities. 

An electric railroad went into operation July 4, 1893. The 
tracks extend along the beach from Seventeenth street and Cen- 
tral avenue to First street ; thence across the island, in full view 
of the Inlet, to the opposite side, where the}- terminate at the 
pier of the Steamboat Company, at Second street, on Great 
Egg Harbor Bay. Several routes by steam railway are avail- 
able in reaching Ocean City from Philadelphia and New York. 
The West Jersey Railroad, before mentioned, and the Reading 
Railroad, by way of Atlantic City and Longport, thence by 
steamer across the bay, and the South Jersey, by way of Sea Isle 
City. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK, 21 



Steamboats. 



The large pier on the Bay between First and Second streets 
is constantly thronged with visitors, from the opening till the 
close of the season. Large and commodions steamers are con- 
stantly plying between Ocean City, Somers Point and Long- 
port, and from these points ont on the ocean to the fishing 
banks, ten miles distant. A fleet of handsome }-achts is always 
riding at anchor in waiting for parties desirons of a sail. 

A ride over Great Egg Harbor Bay is a sonrce of constant 
delight. The invigorating, health-giving salt breezes ma}' be 
enjoyed by the most timid and delicate as well as the strong 
and fearless. The qniet waters and the almost entire absence of 
the "swell" render mal de mer an im.-possihi\iiy. The pier at 
Longport is visible far out at sea. This beautiful resort is 
situated on a point of land extending between the bay and the 
ocean, and was founded by M. Simpson McCuUough, in 1882. 
The place is laid out on a scale of singular magnificence, and 
the care with which the purchasers of lots are chosen will serve 
to keep it a home-retreat of the highest grade. A quiet air of 
refinement pervades everything, and there is an entire absence 
of the rush and bustle which characterize so many seaside 
resorts. A short ride on the electric cars, in full view of the 
ocean, brings one to Atlantic City, where every means of amuse- 
ment and the finest markets in the State may be found. The 
architectiire of Longport is imposing and beautiful, and is in 
harmony with the plan of the city, which promises to rise to a 
degree of refined elegance not excelled on the New Jersey coast. 

Hotels. 

The hotels have always been noted for their convenience 
and comfort, and but one fact has remained a drawback — there 
were not enough to accommodate the would-be «-uests. Ao-ain 



22 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

and again has nearly if not quite every hostlerie in the city 
turned people away from its doors. The fault will now be 
remedied by a large number of new and beautiful hotels located 
at ver\' desirable points. 

Hotel Brighton, the oldest hotel on the island will 
retain its precedence in every line of improvement while under 
the management of R. R. Sooy. A new story has been added 
and towers and turrets thrown out, producing a charming and 
picturesque result. 

The Illinois, under the management of Mrs. H. D. 
Canfield, is open all the year round. A large new wing has 
been added, and guests throng the house before the season is 
fairly opened. This fact alone speaks volumes. 

The Emmett, conducted by Miss M. A. Boyle, is an 
ideal seaside home for those in quest of rest and comfort. A 
new wing has been added, and the fine appointments and excel- 
lent service not only retain the old permanent patronage, but 
render it widely popular with new and transient guests. 

The Wesley House will be open all the year. This 
hotel became very popular in 1894 under the first year's man- 
agement of Mrs. V. S. Robinson, who will also conduct it this 
season. The location is central and less than a square from the 
ocean. 

The Vandalia, Mrs. Joseph Burley proprietress, is 
ver}' widely known ; the guests engage rooms one year for the 
next ; a happy throng may always be seen on the verandahs 
throughout the season. 

The Strand, R. W. Edwards proprietor. The demands 
of one season only have necessitated the building of a large ad- 
dition to this hotel. The location gives an unobstructed view 
of the ocean. Spacious verandahs, large airy rooms and elec- 
tric lights are among its many attractions. ]\Iiss H. Heisler, 
formerly of the Aldine, is the manager. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 23 

The Lafayette. Just far enough back from the high 
water line on the ocean strand to admit of convenience, stands 
this charming hostlerie, which, under the management of the 
genial host Daniel Gallagher, is crowded to its utmost capacity. 
The structure has been so arranged by the architect's skill that 
nearly every room has a view of both bay and ocean. It is sur- 
rounded by broad varandahs and is finely appointed in every 
respect. Electric lights, excellent service, the most careful at- 
tention to the cuisine and perfect drainage must place it among 
the first rank of seaside hotels. 

The Traymore. Located immediately upon the strand, 
with grounds for croquet and lawn tennis, this hotel is admir- 
ably adapted for the entertainment of guests. Miss A. C. 
Creth, the manager, has won an enviable reputation as a hostess 
and is ever on the alert to administer to the pleasure as well as 
the needs of her many patrons. 

The Excursion House, on the boardwalk at the 
foot of Eleventh street, is one of the most attractive points of 
the city. The new proprietors, Messrs. Champion and Brown, 
have thoroughly remodeled the building and made many new 
changes. It has a seating capacity for five hundred, and is fur- 
nished with comfortable chairs throughout. A carrousel, 
cand}' kitchen, dining rooms, ice cream parlors, shooting gallery, 
shuffie boards and bath houses are all to be found within its walls. 

The Adams Casino. This large building on the 
boardw^alk, at the foot of Ninth street, is constantly undergoing 
improvements between seasons. The seating capacity is five 
hundred, and the place is always tluonged. Shuffie boards, a 
carrousel, candy kitchen, etc., are among its attractions. 

Public Schools. 

The Public School Building, three stories high, is centrally 
located. The course of instruction is that taught in cities 



24 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

where graded schools have long been established. Prof. L. R. 
Thomas, the principal, is a native of Chester county, Pa., and 
is possessed of high scholastic acquirements. He was graduated 
from the Keystone State Normal School, in 1870, with honors, 
and has since kept constantly abreast of the times in matters 
pertaining to educational advancement and reform in the public 
schools. His work as an instructor had but commenced when 
the late rebellion called his attention to his country's need. 
He served throughout the entire war, held a captain's rank, 
and was twice breveted for gallantry. Prof. Thomas was en- 
gaged for fourteen consecutive years in academic and public 
school work at West Chester, Pa. He was called to Ocean City 
in 1890 to fill the position he now occupies, and immediately 
introduced into the curriculum of the public schools those 
branches necessary to raise the standard of the educational S)'S- 
tem to a grade equal to that of any in the State. This has been 
most successfully achieved. The first class was graduated in 
1892. The first sessions of the schools of Ocean City were held 
in the rooms of the Association Buildino^. The following: teach- 
ers have engaged in the work since then : Annie Bartine, Mattie 
Boyle, Emma Corson, Carlton Godfrey, Emma Veale, Luther 
Corson, Hattie Smith, F. Spaulding, Amy Miller, Eva Moore, 
C. Pryor, Roxanna Corson, Julia Morton, L. R. Thomas and 
Gertrude Price. 

First M. E. Church 

This building was dedicated August 31, 189 1. A beautiful 
parsonage adjoining the Church was completed shorth' after- 
wards. The first marriage solemnized after the organization of 
the Society — first known as St. Peter's — was that of Alida S. 
Goodrich and Thomas H. Tunnison, November 30, 1882, and 
the first person to whom the rite of baptism was administered 
was S. B. Miller, May 3, 1882. 

The following pastors have been in charge : Revs. E. B. 




PROF. h. R. THOMAS, PRINCIPAL OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 




PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDINGS. 




REV. L. O. MANCHESTER. 




FIRST M. E. CHURCH. 



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Lake, W. E. Boyle, W. H. Hoag, C. K. Fleming, N. J. Wright, 
S. Townsend, W. A. Massey and L. O. Manchester. 

The latter pastor, now in charge, is a New Englander by 
birth and edncation, a native of Litchfield, Conn., and edncated 
at Wilbraham Academy, Mass. His ancestry dates back to the 
first settlers of the States of Rhode Island and Connecticnt. He 
came to New Jersey in the twenty-first year of his age and en- 
gaged for a short time in teaching, subsequently entering the 
Christian ministry. His wide popularity is constantly growing 
and his faithful work in the cause he has so earnestly espoused 
has won a warm place for him in the hearts of his parishioners 
and those of the outside world as well. 

St. Augustine's Catholic Chapel. 

This beautiful new building was erected this year on 
Asbury avenue above Fourteenth street, through the enterprise 
of Mr. and Mrs. John McAleese, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers, 
Daniel Gallagher, Henry Gerlach and others. The need of a 
place of worship has long been felt by the summer as well as 
the permanent residents, and their efforts have been rewarded 
in a neat and commodious structure. The dedicatory services 
were held June 16, 1895. A resident priest will conduct ser- 
vices throughout the year. 



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The Press 

In less than one year after the first sale of lots took place a 
marked degree of enterprise was shown by W. H. Boyle & Bros., 
in issuing from their office in the Pioneer Cottage the first copy 
of a newspaper edited or printed in the city, the Ocean City 
Sen finely April 21, 1881. 

July 4, 1884, the Ocean City Standard^ R. Fisher, editor 
and proprietor, made its first appearance. 

Following these came another weekly, The South Jersey 
Review and Ocean City Spray^ W. H. Fenton, editor and 
proprietor. 

1892, the first Ocean City Guide Book and Directory 
was published by M. T. Rush. 

December 13, 1892, the initial copy of the Weekly Nezcs^ 
H. B. Adams, editor and proprietor, was welcomed by the 
public. 

The first daily, and the latest newspaper, was issiied from 
the present office of the Ocean City Sentinel^ July i, 1893, 
the Ocean City Daily Reporter^ R. C. Robinson, editor and 

proprietor. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 2/ 

Spirituous Liquors. 

The liquor traffic is forever prohibited. A clause in all 
deeds calls for forfeiture of title if the vice is allowed to flourish 
on the premises. It is doubtless owing to this fact to a great 
extent that the population of Ocean City is drawn from the 
most refined and elevated classes. 

Improvements. 

Art must now build upon the foundation which nature has 
so substantially and lavishly laid. The hotels are large and 
numerous, the churches neat and beautiful ; but the chief glory 
of Ocean City is that it is a place of summer homes, and every 
year the cottage contingent grows larger. The number and 
beauty of its private dwellings, both of the permanent and 
summer residents, are a matter of wonder and surprise. There 
is not a broken-down or dilapidated house in the city, and they 
number hundreds. Upon the greater portion good taste and 
ample means have been lavished with the best results. The 
variety is great, and stretches from the tiny cottage to the 
stately mansion, and includes all that is comfortable, picturesque 
and elegant. All the main streets are graveled and the side- 
walks well paved. The building lots are of ample size to build 
one large house or two small ones, allowing alley-ways between 
called for by the authorities to avoid solidly built streets. The 
general aspect of the city is permanence and stability, and as 
the tide of progress flows in capitalists are investing with a 
feeling of security never before known at the seashore. Street 
railways, bus lines, electric lights, pure water, perfect sewerage, 
fine piers, life guards and government signal stations add to the 
necessity and pleasure of a city overflowing with health, enter- 
prise and activity, and to its life at once buoyant, attractive and 
popular thousands are drawn to enjo\' its hospitalities. 



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pio^Fapt^ical Sl^etctjes. 



Mayor Robert Fisher. 

Ocean City is favored in the fact that her highest office is 
filled by one well adapted by nature and education for the posi- 
tion. Mayor Fisher has travelled extensively in Europe and the 
United States, is broad and cosmopolitan in his views and quick 
in his perceptions of the needs of a city which has reached that 
period in its development when every move exerts a telling 
influence on the future, and all his energies are directed toward 
the consummation of a success which can only arise from wise 
administration. The characteristics of his parentage are shown 
in a happy blending of the versatility of the wit and genius of 
the land of the shamrock and the shrewd economy of fore- 
thought of that of the thistle. He was one of the first real 
estate agents to locate in the citv and is now one of the heaviest 
dealers. He has been connected with the largest sales of lots 
that have e\-er taken ]3lace on the island ; his business interests 
are therefore very closely interwoven with the history of the 
city while his knowledge of locations and values is of vast bene- 
fit to purchasers. Mayor. Fisher's real estate and insuranc- 
offices are centrally located on Asbur}- avenue, above Seventh 
street, and his beautiful residence, at the corner of Seventh 
street and Wesley avenue. 

Councilman S. B. Sampson. 

Councilman Sampson was born at Smith's Landing and 
educated in the public schools of Atlantic county. His early 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 29 

life is marked by close and qiiiet attention to all his nndertak- 
ino-s. He came to Ocean City in 1880 and was the first con- 
tracting builder to locate on the island. The first house of any 
considerable size, the Bellevue, was built by him for I. B. Smith. 
Councilman Sampson bought the first lots and erected a beauti. 
ful home on Fourth street, near Asbury avenue, in 1880. This 
he is constantly improving and adorning. He was for awhile a 
member of the firm of Sampson, Steelman & English, but sub- 
sequently withdrew and is now conducting business for himielf. 
He has a thorough practical knowledge of his pursuit and has 
built up his trade upon the merits of his own labor. He has 
been twice elected to the office which he now fills. Councilman 
Sampson is slow in encouraging questionable enterprises, never 
giving his vote until the matter has been well considered, thus 
frequently bringing about the result of a great saving of the 
city's money, while every substantial improvement at once calls 
forth his full sanction and aid. His effective work has been 
felt and acknowledged by the community and has invariably 
met with approbation. 

Councilman Henry Clay Sutton. 

Councilman Sutton was born near the old historic land- 
mark, the Red Lion, dear to the hearts of all Delawarians, and 
located about twelve miles from Wilmington, August 22, 1849. 
While yet in his infancy his parents removed to Greenwood 
farm, at Smyrna, Delaware, where he grew to man's estate, 
receiving the educational advantages of the public schools of 
his day. His natural ability as a railroader was early demonstrated, 
and he became one of the most efficient employees of the West 
Jersey Railroad. When very young, he made application and 
secured a position as clerk with the Adams Express Company, 
in Philadelphia, subsequently entering railroad service as train 
baggage-master, which position he held many }'ears. Mr. 



3° OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Sutton became a permanent resident of Ocean City in 1884, the 
year of its incorporation. He has identified hiniself with the 
First Methodist Episcopal Chnrch, of which he is an active and 
honored member. As a citizen, Mr. Sntton was fully alive to 
all those measures which tend toward the giowth and pros- 
perity of the city. He is thoroughly conscientious, and in the 
work which lies before him, aided by keen discrimination 
and fine ability, he will be relied upon by the reputation he 
has earned m the past for honest, earnest councilmanic labor. 

Councilman I. S. Champion. 

No city, no matter how great her natural resources, ever 
rose to any degree of prosperity that did not owe the credit of 
her position to the men within her limits, their ability to 
develop these resources and create new enterprises. To those 
who have faith in her future, who contribute substantially 
toward her prosperity by investing capital and identifying 
themselves in every possible manner with her interests,^ the 
question of failure is not only improbable, but impossible. 
Councilman Champion is a staunch believer in a brio-ht future 
for Ocean City. He is a Philadelphian by birth and education ; 
he pursued a course of study at Pennington, N. J., and subse- 
quently graduated from Eastman's National Business Colleo-e 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was elected to the office of Council- 
man m the Spring of 1895. Equipped with a fine business 
education, his surroundings are such as to call into play every 
faculty m that line. Councilman Champion is the proprietor 
of the most popular Ice Cream Parlors in the city, and conducts 
the largest milk route. His ice cream has a reputation that 
makes any other kind almost unsalable, while the demand else- 
where has created an extensive wholesale trade. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 3 1 



Ex-Mayor H. G. Steelman. 



Ex-Mavor Steelman was born at Weymouth, N. J., and 
educated in the public schools of that town. He came to Ocean 
City in 1888, and immediately engaged in the grocery business 
at 705 Asbury avenue. The building in which he commenced 
was soon too small to meet the requirements of a rapidly grow- 
ing trade, and a large building was then erected on the site of 
the old one ; the second floors are fitted up for a public hall and 
Council Chamber and private offices, and the third floor for 
lodge rooms. In 1884 he sold out his grocery business, and 
with A. Bourgeois established the firm of H. G. Steelman & 
Co., lumbermen. The large yard and offices are located on 
Eighth street below the West Jersey Railroad station. Ex- 
M^yor Steelman held the position of City Treasurer and was 
otherwise made the recipient of public confidence previous to 
the time of holding the highest municipal office, when, to a 
great extent, the city was in a formative state and new questions 
of policy continually presenting themselves. When we take 
into consideration to how great a degree the growth of a city 
depends upon the quality and amount of energy and vitality 
with which the men controlling her destiny must be imbued, 
we have some idea of the confidence reposed in him by his 
many friends. 

Ex-Councilman J. C. Steelman. 

Ex-Councilman Steelman has ser\'ed the city in the capacity 
mentioned for two terms, the last one expiring in the spring of 
the present year. He was born in South Jersey and has always 
lived near the island upon which Ocean City is located. He 
learned his trade in Atlantic City and is the senior member of 
the firm of Steelman & English, carpenters and builders. Mr. 
Steelman is well versed, both b>- thorough training and the 



32 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

advantages of practical experience, in the principles and details 
of this branch of indnstry. The most creditable resnlts of his 
work may be seen in a large nnmber of the cottages, stores and 
hotels that adorn the streets and avenues. Four years ago he 
designed and built the present board-walk along the strand. 
Previous to that time the close proximity of the structure to 
the ocean, and the constant encroaching of the water upon the 
land, made the destruction of the board-walk at some tme dur- 
ing the year almost a certainty. This is the first one in the 
history of the cit}^ that has withstood the ravages of the ocean 
storms. It stands to-day intact, though it has undergone in 
that time some severe tests. 

Ex-Councilman J. F. Hand. 

In all cities, whether inland or on the seaboard, there are no 
more efficient and substantial factors toward their comfort and 
beauty than the work of those engaged in the building inter- 
ests. In growing cities, especially, men who are conversant 
with architecture and building in a practical sense are valuable 
acquisitions. Ex-Councilman Hand is one of these. The first 
work for which he was called to the city was the erection of the 
artistic little cottage, " Holiday." Among the buildings which 
he has erected since are the M. E. Church and Rev. B. H. 
Sanderlin's handsome residence and many others whose beauty 
of workmanship at once denotes the builder. INIr. Hand was 
born at Tuckerton, N. J., attended the public schools, but fin- 
ished his education at Pennington Seminary. He is a nephew 
of the late Mrs. S. J. C. Downs, State President of the Women's 
Christian Temperance Union of New Jersey. He has travelled 
extensively up and down the coast, was engaged by the Long 
Island Railroad Company and also by the United States Gov- 
ernment to erect buildingfs. 




WILIvIAM LAKE, C.E. 




' "^ ' _ , . — »*^ 



RESIDENCE OF HENRY REINHART, 
Eleventh St. and Central Ave. 




R. H. THORN, POSTMASTER. 




R. H. THORN'S STORES AND RESIDENCE. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. T,S 



W. Lake, C. E. 



When new land is to be utilized, Nature, in her economy, 
calls forth men best adapted to the work — those fearless of 
heart, strong of arm and skilled in the peculiar craft of a pro- 
cess of evolution which changes it into the streets and avenues 
of a well-planned city. Mr. Lake was born at Bargaintown, 
April 27, 1S38. Not satisfied with the educational advantages 
of the day, he pursued a course of study by himself, and at an 
early age was teaching in the public schools. He chose the 
profession of a civil engineer, received an appointment when 
very young, and has successfully followed this calling ever 
since. INIr. Lake has held numerous township offices, and in 
1863 was appointed Commissioner of Deeds. In 1875 he was 
appointed Master in Chancery, and the same year elected to the 
office of Justice of the Peace of Atlantic county, which position 
he held till his removal to Ocean City. His pioneer work in 
this place is best estimated by a knowledge of the fact that he 
has sur\'eyed every foot of the island and examined every origi- 
nal title from 1695 down to 1879, at which time it was purchased 
by the Ocean City Association, and has drawn off 2,000 deeds. 
Surely, he may be termed one of the city fathers. The position 
which he has attained is an illustration to the rising generation 
of the power that lies within one's self to develop the attributes 
with which Nature has endowed him, and bring forth brilliant 
and lasting results. 

Postmaster R. H. Thorn. 

Mr. Thorn was born and educated in Frankford, Philadel- 
phia, and became a resident of Ocean City, May 4th, 1885, at 
which time he opened a hardward and furnishing store at the 
corner of Eighth street and Asbury avenue. In 1887, he pur- 
chased two lots adjoining the one he then occupied, and built 

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34 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Store No. 805 Asbury avenue. In 1890, he bought the stand 
where he commenced business, and in 1891 built another store 
(No. S03 Asbury avenue) between the two already completed, 
together with a dwelling house facing on Eighth street. Thus' 
in less than seven years, from a foundation cautiousl}- but firmly 
laid, has grown one of the most brilliant business enterprises of 
the city. His large stores contain everything in the line men- 
tioned, and are very largely patronized by the summer residents 
in furnishing their cottages, as well as by the local trade. 
Possessed of keen, demonstrated business abilit>-, he has risen 
to the position he now occupies b}- his own efforts. Public- 
spirited movements are tendered his endorsement and support. 
Every new project and enterprise calculated to benefit the com- 
munity, or prox-e conduci\-e to the public welfare, is aided and 
encouraged. He has served as councilman, and on October loth, 
1887, was appointed to the position of postmaster. He was 
again appointed to the position he now holds September i6th, 
1893. Mr. Thorn is most efficiently aided in all his work by 
the faithful and untiring efforts of his wife, a daughter of the 
late E. Smith, recenth- a large property- holder in'^Ocean Cit}-. 

R. C. Robinson. 

I\Ir. Robinson, editor and proprietor of the Ocean City 
Sentinel, and of the Ocean City Daily Reporter, is amono- the 
pioneers of the city. The latter paper is the first daily'^ever 
issued in the city and its wide circulation tells of the need felt 
by the public for a newspaper of its kind. Mr. Robinson was 
born in Atlantic County, N. J., in 1862. At sixteen years of 
age he entered a wholesale dr>--goods house, but findino- the 
business distasteful he engaged to learn the printing business in 
the Banner office, at Beverly, N. J. He then acce^pted a posi- 
tion with A. L. English, of the Atla?itic Review, Atlantic Cit^- 
Mr. Robinson was first in the employ and was then associated 




R. C. ROBINSON, 
Editor aud Proprietor of the Ocean City Sentinel and 
the Ocean City Daily Reporter. 





S- i i i i g H-Jl 




RESIDENCE OF R. C. ROBINSON. 




C. MYERS, Esq. 




RESIDENCE OF C. MYERS. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 35 

with Mr. English in business for over six years. During this 
time he was editor and manager of the Mays Landmg Record, 
and assistant editor of the Philadelphia journal Over the Moim- 
tains and Down by the Sea. He came to Ocean City in 1885, 
and forming a partnership with W. H. Fenton, purchased the 
Ocean City Sentinel, and in a short time became sole proprietor. 
In 1888 he represented Ocean City in the Board of Freeholders 
of Cape ]\Iay county. He was appointed postmaster in 1889. 
Upon assuming the duties of this position, he immediately set 
about having the mail service extended and the office designated 
a money-order office, succeeding in both. He has recently 
added real estate and conveyancing to his business, and with 
an established reputation for just and honorable dealing, the 
outcome cannot but be already decided. 

Charles Myers, Esq. 

No more eloquent illustration can be given of the appreci- 
ation of the benison bestowed upon its people by a Republic, 
than in the respect and admiration given to its self-made men. 
'Squire Myers is one of these. He resides in a beautiful home 
at the corner of Eighth street and Wesley avenue, and is a large 
real estate owner in Ocean City. " By reason of strength," he 
has passed be}'ond the milestone of the allotted time of man 
nearly a sufficient number of years to attain his second majority, 
and yet little trace of age discloses itself in the carriage of his 
well-knit frame or the brilliancy of his mind. The 'Squire was 
born in France, but came to America in his early boyhood. He 
first obtained employment at Darb)-, Pa., and then in Philadel- 
phia, and was among the newsboys who sold the first edition of 
the Philadelphia Ledger. He learned his trade and profession, 
that of a printer, with W. S. Young, of Philadelphia, and was 
engaged with him for twenty-four years, eighteen years of the 
time in the capacity of superintendent. He afterwards engaged 



3^ OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

ill business for himself. Forty-eight hours after the firing on 
Fort Sumter he was engaged in forming a military company. 
This company went to the front in the battles of Antietam and 
Gettysburg, and continued its organization till the surrender of 
Lee. He was afterward largely interested in coal oil and poli- 
tics, and was one of Philadelphia's aldermen, and a prominent 
real-estate agent and conveyancer of that city. Through vicis- 
situdes in youth which the present generation are unable to 
understand, over apparently insuperable barriers, he has won his 
way to success. Shorn of its presence in his own outward ap- 
pearance, he stands to-day amid patriarchal surroundings ; chil- 
dren to the fourth generation listen to reminiscences of his 
youth.^ His experience and wisdom of mature years lend a 
sparkling light to his rare gifts of genius, as the' work of the 
lapidary develops the brilliancy of the diamond. 

Gilbert E. Palen, Ph. B., M. D. 

Dr. Palen, President of the Niagara Alining and Smelting 
Company, is a member of the Ocean City Association and has 
been its treasurer for a number of years. He invested largely 
in real estate, owns a number of handsome cottages and has been 
a regular summer resident since 1880. He was born at Palen- 
ville, N. Y. Dr. Palen first attended Brown University, going 
from thence to Yale, where he graduated with the degree of Ph. 
B. in the famous class of '53. He pursued a medical course at 
the New York University which he subsequently completed at 
the Albany College, graduating from the latter in 1855 as a doc- 
tor of medicine. Dr. Palen is an inherent leader in the rugged 
work of laying the foundation of new enterprises and de\-elop- 
ing interests in hitherto unexplored fields. The spirit of enthu- 
siasm which he diffuses into his work is tempered by cool delib- 
eration and clear, keen foresight. He also possesses an invalu- 
able attribute in a detennination which submerges the barriers 




G. E. PALEN, Ph.B. M.D. 




DR. PALEN'S RESIDENCE. 




DR. PARENS WESL1";V AVE. COTTAGE. 




DR. PALEN'S OCEAN FRONT COTTAGES. 



h 




RUSH E. COX, GROCER. 




THE ILLINOIS, MRS. H. D. CANFIELD, PROPRIETRESS. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 37 

and sweeps away the obstructions which impede his progress 
toward success. In early life he obtained a thorough knowledge 
of the tanning business and in 1856, in what was then the pri- 
meval forests of northern Penns}'lvania, amid the haunts of 
bear, deer and panther, he, together with G. W. Northrop, felled 
trees, cleared the land and built an oak tannery, at the same 
time laying out the town of Canadensis. In partnership with 
his brother he afterwards built tanneries at Tunkhannock, Pa. 
In 1S76 he entered into partnership with Dr. Starkey, under the 
firm name of Starke}' and Palen, the former bringing into the 
concern the perfected compound oxygen system and the latter 
the requisite capital. From this time the business received an 
impetus which has carried it all over the world. Dr. Palen is 
an active and honored member of the M. E. Board of Church Ex- 
tension. He is also a great worker in the cause of temperance. 
His popularity is shown in the fact of his having been several 
times candidate for IMa^'or and Recorder on the Prohibition 
ticket. He gave his name and labor to a cause in which he 
knew that defeat only could be the present outcome, but with a 
firm faith in the knowledge that these efforts are rapidly ad- 
vancingr the work toward the time when the sword of lesfisla- 
tion shall be turned against the great evil of intemperance. 

Rush E. Cox, 

In reviewing- the commercial interests and advantages of 
Ocean City, one is confronted by many enterprises worthy of 
extended notice and consideration. It is a fact, and one which 
merits more than passing observation, that in this thri\-ing 
resort there are located man}' establishments whose operations 
would reflect credit upon much larger cities. Again and again, 
in every calling and pursuit, examples are brought before our 
notice of the success of our young men, 

Mr. Cox, son of A. E. Cox, one of the pioneer hotel keep- 



38 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

ers of the city, is one of these examples. He was born in New 
Egypt, N. J., and came to Ocean City December loth, 1880. 
He was then but a bo}- under the paternal roof, and engaged in 
such work as the peculiar circumstances and surroundings of 
the place called for. He soon entered steamboat service, where 
he was employed but a short time, when he engaged in railroad 
work, in which he was xapidly promoted to the position of con- 
ductor of a passenger train, which position he held for five years 
on the W. J. R. R. 

iVpril 15th, 1893, he opened a grocery store in a much- 
needed locality of the city. Twelfth street and Asbury avenue, 
where he is doing a thriving business. Mr. Cox carries a heavy 
stock of only the best groceries, and caters to the demands of 
the public in this direction in the most careful manner. Cour- 
teous and affable in his bearing, together with prompt and reli- 
able service, the result can only be success. 

H. M. Kalbach, Electrician. 

Mr. Kalbach, a nephew of the famous German Artist, Wm. 
Von Kalbach, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., i\Iarch 9th, 1853, 
and educated in the public schools of that city. He early dis- 
played an inclination toward the study of the most powerful of 
the forces of nature, and first engaged in telegraphy. He soon 
developed by close application to the revelations made by science 
of this invisible agent, a knowledge which placed him on a 
high plane in the field of practical experimental obser^-ation, 
and he was given control of the first plant established to light 
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, from the Delaware river to the 
Schuylkill. The success of this well known venture estab- 
lished his reputation as an electrician, and he afterwards spent 
a number of years traveling through Pennsylvania, New York 
and Ohio establishing plants. jNIr. Kalbach came to Ocean 
City June, 1893, to assume control of the plant in this place, 




H. M. KAIvBACH, ELRCTRICIAN. 




RESIDENCE OF JORDAN MATHEWS, 712 WESLEY AVENUE. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 39 

and has since made great improvements in the facilities for 
lighting the city ; he has patented a lightning arrester for the 
protection of buildings, and is now engaged in perfecting an 
electro-magnetic railroad for running cars without overhead 
wires. Genial and affable in his bearing, he wins his way 
among men, while the inventive genius with which he is 
gifted must ever hold for him the admiration which the " magic 
of the mind " calls forth. 

Ex-Mayor Dr. James E. Pryor. 

Dr. Pryor, though a comparati\'ely }-oung man, may be 
classed among the pioneer residents of Ocean City, having lo- 
cated here in the summer of '88. He was born April 24, 1861, 
near Logansport, Indiana. His ancestors were among the sturdy, 
ruofSred settlers of what was then the western frontier. He re- 

00 

ceived his preliminary education in the public schools of his 
city, and at the age of nineteen entered that department in the 
capacity of a teacher. While thus engaged he was also fitting 
himself for the medical profession, and subsequently entered the 
University Medical College, of Detroit, Michigan, receiving his 
degree in 1888. He commenced the active practice of medicine 
upon his arrival in Ocean City, and by his skill arose rapidly in 
popularity as a physician, and as a citizen as well, which fact 
was shown by his being elected to the office of Mayor of the 
city in 1890, on an Independent ticket, defeating his opponent, 
who had held the office for six consecutive years. During the 
winter of '90 and '91 he pursued a post-graduate course of medi- 
cine at the Philadelphia Polyclinic, and later a course of instruc- 
tion at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Dr. Pr}'or 
is earnestly devoted to his profession and is at all times an in- 
tense student. He has contributed largely to medical journals, 
and is well on the road to that success which is only reached in 
a physician's life by unremitting toil. 



40 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



Wrecl^s. 



' ' Then 'rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — 
Then shrieked the timid and stood still the brave. 
* * * Then all was hushed, 
Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash of billows." 

'^ [FOLLOWING the nature of a continent-building sea, the 
Wn channels about Great Egg Harbor Bar, the treacherous 
shoals upon which incalculable damage has been done to 
life and property", are graduall}- closing up and new ones forming 
further out. It has not been man}- }-ears since the salt-water pond, 
near the sand hills between Second and Third streets, was in the 
path of the old ship's channel ; the line of high water is dis- 
tinctly marked a number of feet back of the sand hills, by shells 
and drift, the entire length of the island. It seems impossible, 
while listening to the never-ending drama of the winds and 
waves, that we cannot wrest from the ocean some histor}^ of the 
havoc it has wrought, but never for a moment do the waters, in 
their ceaseless murmurs or deep-voiced thunders, reveal the 
tragedy of the ship that went down in a solitude so great that 
it was the only object, an infinitessimal speck, that varied the 
waste of waters from its appearance at the dawn of creation. 
Nor do the broken echoes along the shore bear any intelli- 
ofence to us of those which, while not recorded, foundered 
in full view of human succor along the shore, powerless to 
reach them save by an appalled vision. x\s if in mockery 
of our desire to discern these mysteries, crushed and battered 
fragments are cast up, and we trace in these characters of drift- 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 4^ 

wood as best we may the secret the sea withholds. In this 
■unbroken line, strewn with shattered spars, half -petrified or 
covered with shells, or perhaps still bearing the mute appeal 
for help in the tatters of the red flag upon the splintered top- 
mast, with portions of taffrail, keel and rudder, cordage covered 
with seaweed, rude, hand-wrought wooden pins and shining 
copper bolts, broken compasses, sailors' jackets and ship's furni- 
ture, fruits and merchandise from every country and nation in 
the world, fancy is powerless in her wildest flights to reach the 
truth. Slowly the caravels and fellucas of the early mariners pass 
before us in their creeping, timorous course. Of these there is 
little doubt but that the Dolphin, commanded by the dauntless 
Florentine navigator, Verrazzani, while skirting the coast of 
New Jersey, in 1524, turned her prow toward the Inlet and 
entered Great Egg Harbor. The triple-decked galleon plunges 
clumsily in her wake, and of these the Spanish Lagadere, 
with her freight of gold and silver coin, sank near Great 
Egg Harbor Inlet. The African slaver sails past with her 
freight of human souls, and we watch till she passes beyond the 
line of vision, knowing that the barracks and shackles of Perth 
Amboy will receive the living cargo. The low-built corsair or 
lugger of the Moorish pirate steals silently along with her 
swarthy crew, and glancing across the bay to Somers Point we 
remember an almost obliterated path leading near the old hos 
telries, that could tell strange tales of shipwreck, on out into 
the fields till it reaches a tiny grave\-ard surrounded by a low 
stone wall. In the centre stands an unpretending monument 
reared to the memory of Capt. Richard Somers, who perished 
in the famous attempt to rescue the crew of the Philadelphia in 
Tripolitan waters when Algerine piracy was at its height in the 
earh- part of the present centur}-, while the lone cedar at the 
Anchoring Point near-by marks the spot where lie the bones of 
one of the most noted pirates of our own country. The name of 
Capt. Somers also recalls the well-known vessel which became the 



42 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

subject of a most thrilling tragedy on the high seas. In quick suc- 
cession pass out through the Inlet the open boats and ketches in 
which the sturdy sons of the Revolution of Cape ]\Iay and Atlantic 
counties ventured upon the open sea. The Rainbow, Unity, En- 
terprise and Skunk, and after d}-eing the red coats a deeper crim- 
son, towed one British boat after another into port, the latter 
vessel alone recording nineteen captures. The fate of the brig 
Fame is told, when on the night of February 22, 1781, she 
capsized near Somers Point, and of a crew of thirty-two men, 
twenty-seven succumbed to the sleep of death from exposure 
or drowning. Before the Life Saving Ser\'ice reached out its 
strong arms to rescue victims of shipwreck, the most noted was 
that of the Perseverance. In 181 5, this brig went down with 
thirteen of the ship's company of seventeen and a cargo valued 
at $400,000. A number of relics from this wreck are still in 
existence. The old " Dutch " hull, lying keel upwards on 
Bond's bar, in Great Egg Harbor Bay, bearing the evidence of 
the cause of disaster in its charred timbers, is reported in the 
records of the Coast Guard of the Mediterranean Sea as a Ger- 
man barkentine, loaded with petroleum, which burned in those 
waters ; the hull was then driven by storms or drifted with the 
counter current of the Gulf Stream, reported again and again 
by incoming vessels, always holding its inverted position till it 
found a haven on this side of the Atlantic. As late as Febru- 
ary 13th, 1 888, a suggestion of the smuggler, or buccaneer, 
comes to us in the m^-sterious stranding of the Spanish brig, 
Panchito, with her swarthy crew and a cargo of hides and 
logwood. Partly submerged, near the foot of Twentieth street, 
lies the wreck of the Angela Brewer, which came ashore in 
1864, loaded with cotton and molasses, while in close prox- 
imity the hull of the Zetland, wrecked November 2d, 1881, 
with a cargo of salt, is fast yielding to the elements. A short 
distance beyond, the Sallie Clark, lumber laden, stranded, 
havine lost two of her crew in the disaster. Instinctivelv 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 43 

we listen for the frantic appeals for help which came 
over the waves forty years ago, when the Rhine, with three 
hundred emigrants from the Fatherland, went down, and the 
Elizabeth, with tw^o hundred and fifty Irish emigrants, sank 
ten years later. In these wrecks but one, a babe, while being 
thrown from the vessel to the life boat, was lost. Remains of 
the hull of the fruit laden Dashaway, from Sicily, wrecked in 
i860, lie near the foot of Fifty-second street. The Deborah 
Diverty, coal laden, sank in the night off Corson's Inlet, some 
time between June 17th and July 3d, 1884, and of the ship's 
company of eight, no message has ever reached human sight or 
hearing. Near the Excursion House, wdien the tide is very 
low, part of the steamer Utah, wrecked in 1864, laden with 
fine wines and china, is still visible. The Marcia Lewis, coal 
laden, stranded on Great Egg Harbor Bar and went to pieces 
in a few hours September ist, 1892. At nearly the same place 
the staunch schooner J. and H. Scull, lumber laden, came up 
on the bar January i8th, 1892, and for forty-one days, or until 
February 29th, resisted the fury of the breakers, when she was 
carried up on the main beach, her hull but slightly strained. 
The wreck of the sloop Sallie and Eliza, August 20th, 1892, will 
long be remembered by the thousands who thronged the beach 
when the half drowned mate was brought ashore by the Life 
Saving Service and the captain was reported missing, while at 
the same time the yachts jMattie Parker and Lottie stranded. 
April 27th, 1894, the two-masted schooner Charles J. String, 
loaded with fish guano, bound for Milford, Delaware, foundered 
on the bar and sank a few days later. Following this, the Dart, 
a yacht owned by Dr. Boardman, of Longport, capsized on the 
North Bar. Two men were rescued wdiile clinging to the up- 
turned boat by the Life Saving Crew of the Ocean City Station- 
October loth the schooner Lurena Reed, coal laden, struck on 
the bar and grounded during a terrible storm. The crew. Cap- 
tain G. A. Risley, N. IngersoU and C. King, were rescued in an 
exhausted condition. 



44 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



offic?:e5S. 



Mayor, 
ROBERT FISHER. 

Council, 

S. B. Sampson, office, 305 Fourth street. 
H. C. Sutton, office, Centre avenue below Eighth street. 
I. S. Cha:\ipion, office, Asbury avenue and Seventh street. 
H. Steelman, office, Asbury avenue and Fourth street. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 45 

City Clerk^ 
E. A. BuRGEOiS, 726 Asbury avenue. 

Collector and Treasurer^ 
S. SCHURCH, corner Asbury avenue and Seventh street. 

Assessor^ 
R. LUDLAM, 823 Asbury avenue. 

Freeholder^ 
J. W. Lee, Asbury avenue below Seventh street. 

Solicitor^ 
H. O. Newcomb, Wesley avenue below Ninth street. 

Coroner^ 
R. C. Robinson, 744 Asbury avenue. 

Marshall^ 
H. L. CoNVER, Asbury avenue below Seventh street. 

Policeman^ 
S. Carhart, Asbury avenue below Tenth street. 

Board of Healthy 

President, Dr. J. S. Waggoner, 731 Asbury avenue. 

Secretary, W. Lake, cor. Sixth street and Asbury avenue. 

G. O. Adams, Asbury avenue below Ninth street. 

J. CoNVER, 443 West avenue. 

E. B. English, 915 Asbury avenue. 



46 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Electric Railway Company. 

President, Rev. E. B. Lake. 
Vice President, W. Lake. 
Secretary, H. B. Adams. 
Treasurer, Dr. G. E. Palen. 

Electric Light Company. 

President, Rev. E. B. Lake. 
\'ice President, R. H. Thorn. 
Secretary, W. Lake. 
Treasurer, Dr. G. E. Palen. 

Water Department, 

President, Rev. E. B. Lake. 

Sewerage Company. 

President, Rev. E. B. Lake. 

Fire Company. 

President, R. C. Robinson ; Vice Presdent, C. A. Campbell ; 
Secretary, W. Lake ; Treasurer, S. B. Sampson ; Fore- 
man, H. Reinhart ; Chief, Samuel Carhart ; Assistant 
Chief, R. H. Thorn ; Trustees, J. F, Hand, J. S. Rush, 
J. L. Headle}', E. A. Bourgeois, F. Smith, W. W. Adams, 
L. Cox. 

Board of School Directors. 

President, William Lake ; G. O. Adams, G. W. Everingham, 
R. B. Stites, G. P. IMoore, R. C. Robinson. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 47 

Secret Societies. 

Knights of Pythias. 

Junior Order United American Mechanics. 

Yachtmen's Association. 

President, E. B. English. Secretary, M. Leake. 

Life Saving Stations. 

Ocean City — Captain J. M. Corson. 
Peck's Beach — Captain L. Godfrey. 
Corson's Inlet — Captain C. D. Stephens. 



Pir^ectoFy of Streets. 



AVENUES RUNNING NORTH AND SOUTH. 

Bay. Central. 

Simpson, Wesley. 

Haven. Ocean. 

West. Atlantic. 

Asbury. 

STREETS RUNNING EAST AND WEST. 

Numbered from First to Fifty-second street. 



48 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



PI^KeTOUY- 



Abbott, W. G., cor. Seventh st. and Asbnry ave. 

Adams, H. B., Central ave. below Ninth st. 

Adams, J. T., 629 Central ave. 

Adams, W. W., Asbury ave. below Tenth st. 

Adams, G. O., Central ave. below Ninth st. 

Adams, C. H., Central ave. below Ninth st. 

Adams, J., Ocean City, N. J. 

Adams, I. G., Ocean City, N. J. 

Adams, E., Ocean City, N. J. 

Adams, T. L., Asbnry ave. above Seventh st. 

Allen & Hughes, Ocean City, N. J. 

Allen, G. W. Prof., Wesley ave. above Eleventh st. 

Allen, E., Asbnry ave. above Fourth st. 

Allen, Dr., 411 Fifth st. 

Anderson, M. A., Seventh street and Central ave. 

Ano-, G., West ave. below Fourth st. 

Asher, E., Central ave. below Eleventh st. 

Atwood, P. C, Ocean City, N. J. 

Austin, J., Asbury ave. below Ninth st. 



Bamford, A. E., 443 Asbury ave. 

Baner, :M., cor. Sixth st. and Ocean ave. 

Barrows, A. D., cor. Thirty-fourth st, and Asbury ave. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. ^19 

Barr, J. W., cor. Ninth st. and Asbnry ave. 

Barr, W. J., cor. Ninth st. and Asbnry ave. 

Ball-, J. B., Ocean City, N. J. 

Bard, E., Asbnry ave. above Fifteenth st. 

Bartine, D. W., M. D., 717 Wesley ave. 

Bartine, W., M. D., 717 Wesley ave. 

Barnett, B. G., Asbnry ave. above First st. 

Barnett, Jos., Asbnry ave. below Tenth st. 

Barnhnrst, W. D., 161 2 Asbnry av. 

Bardsley, S., 1204 Central ave. 

Bassett, S., 930 Wesley ave. 

Bebee, S., Ocean ave. above Fonrth st. 

Bell, E., Ocean City, N. J. 

Bennett, T. C, 850 Asbnry ave. 

Benners, A., Ocean City, N. J. 

Bethany^ S. S., Ocean Rest, cor. Thirtieth st. and Wesley av. 

Bennett, J., cor. Eighth st. and Asbnry ave. 

Beckett, L. R., Sixth st. and Wesley ave. 

Bingham, B. C, Simpson ave. below First st. 

Birchall, W., cor. Fifth st. and Central ave. 

Bisbee, F. A. Rev., West avenne above First st. 

Bilbrough, J., Ocean City, N. J. 

Boardman, A. H., Wesley ave. and Ninth st. 

Bodine, H. H., 651 Asbnry ave. 

Boyer, W. T., 1241 Asbnry ave. 

Borie, C, x^sbnry ave. below Fourth st. 

Borden, T., Ocean ave. and Seventh st. 

Boyle, Mrs. W. E.,"The Emmett,"cor. Eighth st. and Central ave. 

Borradaile, J. C, Simpson ave. below First st. ...._v 

Boothroyd, J. A., Seventh st. and Central ave. 

Bowen, C, cor. Fonrth st. and Wesley ave. 

Bowman, J., Asbury ave. and Eighth st. 

Bourgeois, E. A., City Clerk, cor. Ninth st. and Central av. 

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Bourgeois, A., 420 Central ave. 

Breckley, G. M., Sr., Central ave. below Eighth. 

Breckley, G. M., Jr., x\sbury ave. above Eighth st. 

Breckley, E., cor. West a^•e. above Eleventh st. 

Briggs, J., 1 127 West ave. 

Briggs, R., II 27 W^est ave. 

Brower, J., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Brower, J., cor. Third st. and Central ave. 

Brown, H., Central ave. below Ninth st. 

Brown, W. W., 945 Asbury ave. 

Brown, C, 945 Asbury ave. 

Brown, T. J., Ocean City, N. J. 

Browni, T., Central ave. below Thirteenth st. 

Brown, E. A., Asbury ave. and First st. 

Brown, A., cor. Tenth st. and Central ave. 

Bridgewater, W. E., Ocean City, N. J. 

Briscoe, C. F., cor. Sixth st. and Ocean ave. 

Brown, J., West ave. below Fourth st. 

Bryan, J. T., 1249 Asbur}^ ave. 

Brucker, E., cor. Tenth st. and Central ave. 

Burns, W. A., Central ave. below Ninth st. 

Buddy, A., Asbury ave. above Twelfth st. 

Burroughs, R., Fifth st. and iVsbury ave. 

Burley, J. Vandalia, Central ave. above Eighth st. 

Burley, A., cor. Fourteenth st. and West ave. 

Burley, S., Asbury ave., below Twelfth st. 

Burt, J., Wesley ave. below Ninth st. 

Burrell, W. H., Rev., Ocean City, N. J. 

Burnley, C. W., Rev., 924 Wesley ave. 

Burleigh, E. W., Ocean City, N. J. 



Campbell, C. A., 813 Asbury ave. 
Campbell, E. B., Asbury ave. above Fifth st. 
Campbell, H., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 



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Cameron, P., West ave. below Eleventh st. 

Canfield, H. D., "Illinois," cor. Sixth st. and Asbury ave. 

Canfield, F. P., Fourth st. and Haven ave. 

Canfield, H., "Illinois," cor. Sixth st. and Asbury ave. 

Carson, J. R., Ocean City, N. J. 

Cartinacorina, J., West ave. above Fourth st. 

Carson, R., Asbur>^ ave. above Twelfth St. 

Carhart, S., Asbury ave. above Tenth st. 

Cake, C. H., Jr., cor. Eleventh st. and Central ave. 

Champion, F. E., 634 Asbur}^ ave. 

Champion, I., Seventh st. and Asbur\^ ave. 

Champion, J., " Vandalia," 725 Central ave. 

Champion, Q., Asbury ave. above Fourth st. 

Chance, J. C, Asbury ave. above First st. 

Chandler, H. D., 922 Wesley ave. 

Chew,- W., West ave. above Thirteenth st. 

Chew, N., " Lafayette," Thirteenth st. and Central ave. 

Christ, A. E., Central ave. below Sixth st. 

Christian, J. B., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Clark, J. E., Seventeenth st. and West ave. 

Clark, J. H., M. D., Central ave. below Ninth st. 

Clawell, D., cor. Seventeenth st. and Asbur^^ ave. 

Clelland, N. C, Central ave. above Eleventh st. 

Clifton, J., Simpson ave. below Second st. 

Clinton, E. T., 634 Central ave. 

Clunn, T., West ave. above Tenth st. 

Collins, S., 1408 West ave. 

Coolbaugh, C. C, Ocean City, N. J. 

Collins, P., Central ave. above Eleventh st. 

Collins, G., Central ave. below Seventh st. 

Conver, J., 623 Asbury ave. 

Con^-er, H. L., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Conver, S., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Coleman, R. Ocean City, N. J. 



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Corson, jM., Ocean ave. above Seventh st. 

Corson, C, Asbury ave. above Eighth st. 

Corson, N., 653 Asbnr\' ave. 

Corson, L. S., West ave. below Twelfth st. 

Corson, Y., 721 Asbury ave. 

Corson, J. M., Capt. L. S. S. 

Corson, O., 721 Asbury ave. 

Corson, J. I., Rev., cor. Fifth st. and Central ave. 

Corson, F. F., M. D., Ocean City, N. J. 

Corson, J. M., 1632 Central ave. 

Corson, E., 745 Asbury ave. 

Corson, L., " Vandalia," 725 Central ave. 

Cowperthwaite, S. S. E., 1220 Central ave. 

Cotton, A., 453 Asbury ave. 

Cox, A. E., Asbury ave. and Twelfth st. 

Cox, L., Asbury- ave. and Twelfth st. 

Cox, R. E., cor. Twelfth st. and Asbury ave. 

Coxey, J. C, cor. Fourteenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Cranshaw, R., Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Creswell, D., Central ave. and Seventh st. 

Creth, A. C, " Tray more," cor. Ninth st. and Wesley ave. 

Crispin, J., 749 Asbury ave. 

Cross, T. B., Ocean City, N. J. 

Crouse, J. W., cor. Fifth st. and Atlantic ave. 

Crouse, H., cor. Seventh st. and Asbury ave. 

Curry, W. B., Central ave. above Fifth st. 



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Darlington, A. G., Ocean ave. above Eighth st. 

Darby, F. E., 822 Asbury ave. 

Dalryniple, F., Central ave. above Se\-enteenth st. 

Dallett, H., Ocean City, N. J. 

Davis, ]M. D., Wesley ave. below Ninth st. 



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Davis, J. H., Atlantic ave. below Fourth st. 
Davis, W. A., M. D., cor. First st. and Central ave. 
Davis, N., M. D., cor. First st. and Asbury ave. 
Davis, J. T., cor. First st. and Asbnry ave. 
Dawes, E., Asbnry ave. below Eleventh st. 
Day, O. P., Asbury ave. above Fourth st. 
Demaris, A., Eighth st. and Haven ave. 
Denn, C, Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 
Diver, J. A., Asbury ave. above Fourteenth st. 
Dixon, J., Central ave. above F'ourth st. 
Dixon, S., Asbury ave. below Eighth st. 
Dobbins, G. L., Ocean City, N. J. 
Dodge, R., Central ave. below Twelfth st. 
Donaldson, E., Asbury ave. below Ninth st. 
Donahoe, D., Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 
Downs, J., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 
Doughty, C, 431 i\sbury ave. 
Doughty, J., Ocean City. 
Dungan, E. C, cor. Eleventh st. and Central ave. 

Ebert, C. L., West ave. below Twelfth st. 

Eddowes, T., 141 4 Asbury ave. 

Edwards, C. E., D. D. S., ^' Strand," cor. Ninth st. and Wesley ave. 

Edwards, R. W., " Strand," cor. Ninth st. and Wesley ave. 

Edwards, A., station agent W. J. R. R. 

Eddy, C. v.. Fourth st. and Atlantic ave. 

Edmunds, E. B., West ave. below Eleventh st. 

Ellison, J. v., Ocean ave. above Seventh st. 

Elliott, W., Thirteenth st. and Central ave. 

Emerson, W. B., 1606 Asbury ave. 

Emley, G., 642 Central ave. 

English, F., 1220 Central ave. 

English, E. B., 915 Asbur}- ave. 

English, J. A., Fourth st. and Wesley SLve. 



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Esher, E. H., 1620 Asbury ave. 

Erwin, A. F., Wesley ave. below Sixth st. 

Eves, i\I., Ocean City, N. J. 

Everingham, G., Asbury ave. below Eighth st. 



Earner, C, Ocean City, N. J. 

Fannce, M., Asbury ave. above Fourteenth st. 

Fenstemacher, G., Wesley ave. above Eighth st. 

Ferron, W. C, Asbury ave. below Ninth st. 

Fithian, F., Ocean City, N. J. 

Fisher, D. L., cor. Seventh st. and Wesley ave. 

Fisher, R., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Fitzgerald, F. P., Ocean City, N. J. 

Fletcher, M., 117 Asbury ave. 

Fogg, A. G., Wesley ave. and Ninth st. 

Foulds, H., cor. Fourth st. and Ocean ave. 

Fox, J. P., Asbury ave. below Eighth st. 

Fisher, R., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Franklin, P. A. H., Ocean City, N. J. 

Fuller, G., Ocean City, N..J. 

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Gallagher, D., " Lafayette," cor. Thirteenth st. and Cental ave. 

Gandy, A. T., Thirty-fourth st. 

Gandy, J. G., 745 Asbury ave. 

Gandy, O. M.^ Eighth st. and Asbury ave. 

Garwood, S. P., 418 Wesley ave. 

Garrettson, W. R., 831 Asbury ave. 

Garrison, S. O., Rev., 1658 Central ave. 

Gerlach, H., cor. Sixteenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Getty, M., 640 Central ave. 

Gibb, W., Asbury ave. below Seventh st, 

Gibb, J. ^I., Wesley ave. above Fifth st. 



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Gill, T. C, cor. Seventh st. and Wesley ave. 

Gilbert, A. G., Asbury ave. above Third st. 

Gillette, A. M., Wesley ave. above Ninth st. 

Gluchert, R., Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Godfrey, A. T., Asbur\' ave. below Eighteenth st. 

Goff, S. C, cor. Central ave and Ninth st. 

Godfrey, W., 629 Asbur}' ave. 

Gorby, W. A., Ocean ave. above Seventh st. 

Graham, A., cor. Tenth st. and Wesley ave. 

Grace, T., Seventh st. and Ocean ave. 

Graw, J. B., D. D., Ocean City, N. J. 

Greenwell, J., Wesley ave. below Sixth st. 

Griffith, R. L., cor. Seventh st. and Central ave. 

Griffith, A. E., M. D., cor. Sixteenth st. and Central ave. 

Hammer, T. B., Central ave. below Ninth street. 

Hand, J. F., cor. West ave. and Twelfth st. 

Hand, P. S., 1213 West ave. 

Hann, S. H. Rev., Central ave. below Eighth st. 

Hayes, W. H., cor. Fourth st. and Ocean ave. 

Hayday, G., Ocean City, N. J. 

Hagle, W., Asbury ave. below Sixteenth st. 

Haines, H. S., Ocean City, N. J. 

Hayes, N., Asbury ave. below Eighth st. 

Headley, H., Asbury ave. above Eighth st. 

Headley, L., West ave. below Twelfth st. 

Hearl, J. E., cor. Eleventh st. and Central ave. 

Heisler, H., " Strand," cor. Ninth st. and Wesley ave. 

Henderson, J. C. Capt., West ave. above Eleventh st. 

Hess, U. Y., West ave. below Twelfth st. 

Hewitt, J. P., Central ave. above Seventh st. 

Hewson, F., Central ave. below Twelfth st. 

Hillman, J. P., Asbury ave. below Twelfth st. 

Hickey, D. W., 808 Central ave. 



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Hoffman, B., 1241 Asbury ave. 

Howell, Misses, Ocean City, N. J. 

Hoffstetter, G., 1209 Central ave. 

Holland, J. M., cor. Fifteenth st. and Asbnry ave. 

Hoopes, E. D., Ocean ave. above Eighth st. 

Horn, G. L., Ocean City, N. J. 

Hoskins, C. R., 404 Asbnry ave. 

Honck, W. Capt., Wesley ave. above Sixth st. 

Hnckle, W. Rev., 606 Wesle)' ave. 

Hndson, D., West ave. below Third st. 

Husted, A. E., Ocean City, N. J. 

Hunter, T., Ocean City, N. J. 

Hnchinson, J. H. Rev,, Ocean City, N. J. 

Hutchinson, T. C, INI. D., iVsbur}' ave. below Ninth st. 

Hughes, W. R., Sixth st. and Wesley ave. 

Hyde, A. C, Ocean City, N. J. 



Ingersoll, B., Ninth st. and Boardwalk, 
Ingersoll, J., West ave. below Twelfth st. 
Iszard, J., M. D., Ocean City, N. J. 

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Jackson, M., 326 West ave. 

Jackson, A. H., Ocean ave. above Fifth st. 

Jeffries, J. H,, 347 West ave, 

Jeffries, J. B., 347 West ave, 

Jeffries, M,, West ave. and Twelfth st. 

Jeft'ries, G., 827 Asbury ave. 

Jenkins, J., M. D., Central ave. below Eleventh st. 

Johnson, J., Asbury ave. below Seventh st. 

Jones, W., 437 Asbury ave. 

Jones, J. F., West ave. above Twelfth st. 

Jordan, R. J,, cor. Fifth st, and Wesley ave. 



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Kalbach, H., 1057 West ave. 

Kendrick, J. R., Ocean City, N. J. 

Kenney, T., " Adams' Casino," cor. Ninth st. and Boardwalk. 

Keating, C. J., Central ave. below Nineteenth st. 

Key, W. H., Central ave. below Eighth st. 

Keyser, A., Asbury ave. above First st. 

Kino-, C., Asbnrv ave. below Fourth st. 

Krouse, G.. 305 Central ave. 

Krouse, H., 305 Central ave. 

Knorr, A. C, Asbury ave. above Ninth st. 

Kuder, O. H., 911 Asbury ave. 

Kynett, A. G., Rev., 1233 Central ave. 

Kynett, i\. J., Rev., 1229 Central ave. 

Kynett, H. H., M. D., 1225 Central ave. 



Lake, E. B., Rev., cor. Fifth st. and Wesley ave. 

Lake, S. W., Rev., Eighth st. and Ocean ave. 

Lake, J. E., Rev., Ocean City, N. J. 

Lake, W., cor. Sixth st. and Asbury ave. 

Lake, D. E., 1628 Asbury ave. 

Lake, M., 450 West a\-e. 

Lake, H., 413 Fifth st. 

Lake, T. R., Asbur>- ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Lake, W. E., Prof., Ocean City, N. J. 

Lake, H. Y., Association Offices. 

Lake, H. H., Ocean City, N. J. 

Lake, C. P., Ocean City, N. J. 

Langley, G. B., Ocean City, N. J. 

Lee, G. W., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Lee, L, 939 Asbury ave. 



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Law, C. C, Wesley ave. above Eleventh st. 

Lee, J. W., Asbury ave. below Seventh st. 

Lee, L., 1059 West ave. 

Lennig, G. G., Simpson ave. below First st. 

Lewallen, J., Asbur\' ave. below Seventh st. 

Linn, J., 324 Central ave. 

Livezey, J., Ocean ave. above Fifth st. 

Lippincott, E. A,, Asbur\' ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Loder, E. B., Ocean City, N. J. 

Lonabaugh, J. E., Ocean City, N. J. 

Luden, W. H., 708 Central ave. 

Ludlam, R., 823 Asbury ave. 

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MacMullen, W. Rev., W^esley ave. below Seventh st. 

^Manchester, L. O. Rev., Central ave. above Eighth st. 

]\Ianchester, F., Central ave. above Eighth st. 

Manship, M., 1127 West ave. 

Mahoney, D., 1043 West ave. 

Mahan, C. C, 714 Asbur^' ave. 

Mapps, W. R., 141 6 Asbur>- ave. 

]\Iarter, H. H., 934 Asbur\' ave. 

Marts, J., 420 Central ave. 

Massey, W. A. Rev., Ocean City, N. J. 

Massey, W. E., Asbury ave. below Eighth st. 

Marshall, A., 712 Ocean ave. 

Mathews, C, 713 Wesley ave. 

]\Iathews, J., Wesley ave. above Eighth st. 

Matthews, H. M., Wesley ave. below Seventh st. 

Maxwell, M., Asbury ave, below Ninth st. 

jNIcAllister, J. C, Asbury ave. above First st. 

McAllister, S., Wesley ave. below Second st. 

McAleese, J., 1409 As*bury ave. 

McCullough, J. B., Wesley ave. above Seventh st, 

r^lclntvre, H. L, Central ave. below Seventh st. 



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McGuire, J. H., Wesley ave. above Eighth st. 

McFadden, J. P., Ocean City, N. J. 

McFetridge, J., 305 Central ave. 

McCorkle, J. N., Asbury ave. below Sixth st. 

McChesney, J., Ocean City, N. J. 

Mecke, C. W., Wesley ave. above Seventh st 

MeGargee, G. N., Ocean City, N. J. 

Mitchell, W., Ocean City, N. J. 

Mills, H. P., Asbnr>' ave. above Seventh st. 

Miller, P., 726 Asbury ave. 

Miller, W., 726 Asbury ave. 

Miller, A. C, Central ave. below Sixth st. 

Miller, S. B., J2>3 Central ave. 

Miller, C. G., 1640 Asbury ave. 

Miller, G. M., Ocean ave. below Eighth st. 

Milnor, A., West ave. above Seventh st. 

Moore, G. P., 835 Asbury ave. 

Moore, E., 835 Asbury ave. 

Moore, M., 835 Asbury ave. 

Moore, D., Asbur}' ave. above Fifteenth st. 

Moore, H., Ocean ave above Seventh st. 

Moore, J. H., Asbury ave. above Twelfth st. 

Morey, J. K., Central ave. below Eighth st. 

Morgan, J., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Morris, A., 404 Asbury ave. 

Morris, E., Asbury ave. below Eighth st. 

Morris, J. B., 727 West ave. 

Morton, J. C, cor. Eighth st. and Asbury ave. 

Mortimore, J. A., West ave. above Fifteenth st. 

Muir, D. S., cor. Fourth st. and Wesley ave. 

Murdoch, J., 8 Asbury ave. 

Murdoch, P., 806 Asburv^ ave. 

Myers, C, cor. Eighth st. and Wesley ave. 



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Nabb, C. F., 756 Asburv' ave. 

Nabb, J. C, 756 Asbun- ave. 

Nagle, C, Ocean City, N. J. 

Neff, J. R., Ocean City, N. J. 

Nelson, A., Eighth st. and Boardwalk. 

Neel, C. M., Asbuiy- ave, above Sixteenth st. 

Nicholson, W. S., Central ave. below Eleventh st. 

Newcomb, H. O., City Solicitor, Ocean City, N. J. 

Newkirk, B., cor. Eighth st. and Asbnr}' ave. 

Newkirk, H., 443 West ave, 

Northrup, H. L., Asbur}' ave. below Twelfth st. 

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O'Kell, J. R., Ocean City, N. J. 
Ogden, C, West ave. and Eleventh st. 



Palen, G. J., U. D., 825 Wesley ave. 

Palen, G. E., M. D., 825 Wesley ave. 

Paxon, jNI., cor. Sixth st. and Wesley a\'e. 

Parker, R. ]\I.. Central ave. below Fourth st. 

Parrish, D. H., Ocean City, N. J. 

Parris, D., Wesley ave. below Eighth st. 

Pennock, A. H., cor. Fourteenth st. and Central ave. 

Pickering, E,, Asbur\- ave. above Seventh st. 

Pierce, O., Ocean City, N. J, 

Price, J. T., 717 Asbur>^ ave. 

Price, B. D., Atlantic ave. above Fourth st. 

Plunkett, L. L., Wesley ave. below Eighth st. 

Pontiere, F., Asbur^- ave. above Tenth st. 

Pancoast, J., Asbur^- ave. above Fourth st. 

Pryor, J. E., M. D., 809 Asbury ave. 



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Ranck, A. B., 708 Asbury ave. 

Rapp, R., Central ave. above First. 

Rapp, J. V. R., Central ave. above First st. 

Rapp, F., Eighth st. and Wesley ave. 

Radcliff, J. Y., 749 Asbury ave. 

Reaney, A. W., 409 Fifth st. 

Reinhart, H., Central ave. above Tenth st. 

Reinhart, C, Ocean City, N. J. 

Rees, W. W., Asbury ave. above Twelfth st. 

Reese, J., Wesley ave. and Seventh st. 

Reber, C. S., Central ave. belov/ Seventh st. 

Reemer, J., Ocean City, N. J. 

Rice, J. L, 1 2 13 Asbury ave. 

Ritter, J. M., Central ave. below Ninth st. 

Ritter, E. L., Central ave. below Fifteenth st. 

Rider, F. P., Ocean City, N. J. 

Risle}', L., cor. Seventh st. and Central ave. 

Risley, W., Asbur\' ave. above Fourth st. 

Risley, D., 711 Central ave. 

Riley, J. E., Asbur\- ave. below Fifteenth st. 

Riley, J. E., cor. Twelfth st. and Asbury ave. 

Roller, ly., 1 41 9 Asbury ave. 

Roberts, J., Ocean City, N. J. 

Roberts, M. F., Ocean City, N. J. 

Roberts, J. R., M. D., 604 Wesley ave. 

Robinson, J., 726 Asbury ave. 

Robinson, R. C, office, 744 Asbury ave. 

Robinson, V. S., " Wesley House," cor. Eighth st. and Wesley av 

Robinson, A. S., Ocean City, N. J. 

Robinson, H. D., Central ave. below Sixth st. 

Rose, J. B., Ocean City, N. J. 

Rowland, J. M., cor. Central ave. and Eleventh st. 



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Rush, J. S., Eleventh st. and Central avenue. 

Russell, S., 813 Asbury ave, 

Russell, J. K., Central ave. and Seventh st. 



Salter, J. G., cor. Fourteenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Sallade, W., 215 Asbur}- ave. 

Sampson, S. B., 305 Fourth st. 

Sampson, D., Asbury ave. below Fourth st. 

Sanderlin, B. H., Wesley ave. below Eighth st. 

Sanderlin, C. F., Wesley ave. below Eighth st. 

Schenck, E., 756 West ave. 

Schenk, J., 711 Asbur>' ave. 

Schermerhorn, C. H., 1237 Central ave. 

Scherer, S. C, Wesley ave. and Thirtieth st. 

Schreiner, W. H., Central ave. below Eleventh st. 

Schuff, J., cor. Asbury ave. and Seventh st. 

Schurch, S., " Bellevue," cor. Asbur>^ ave. and Seventh st. 

Schmitt, E., cor. Tenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Scull, J. C, 727 Asbur)' ave. 

Scull, A., 727 Asbury ave. 

Scull, A. D., Central ave. above Seventh st. 

Scott, T., Wesley ave. above Eleventh st. 

Scattergood, S. H., Central ave. below Sixth st. 

Shaw, T. E., cor. Fifth st. and Central ave. 

Sharp, A. D., no Asbur}- ave. 

Sharp, C. B., no Asbury ave. 

Sharp, E. J., Asbur>- ave. below First st. 

Sharp, W., West ave. above Second st. 

Sharp, S. W., 411 Fifth st. 

Sharp, J., Asbury ave. below Second st. 

Shepperd, W., 305 Central ave. 

Shields, J., West ave. below Sixteenth st. 

Shiels, W., Central ave. and Fourth st. 



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Sell river, W., 122 1 Asbury ave. 

Schock, F., 815 Asbury ave. 

Sliull, J., Haven ave. and Eighth st. 

Simmons, T., Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Slawter, J. H., Central ave. and Sixth st. 

Smith, Iv. S., 1140 Asbury ave. 

Smith, H., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 

Smith, J. W., 705 Asbury ave. 

Smith, B. R., 1046 Asbury ave. 

Smith, R. M., Ocean ave. above Seventh st. 

Smith, F., West a\-e. above Fourth st. 

Smith, E., Asbury ave. above Fourth st. 

Smith, J. C, Asbur\' ave. above Twelfth st. 

Smith, G. W., Central ave. below Sixth st. 

Smith, R. K., Central ave. below Ninth st. 

Smith, H. D., 733 Central ave. 

Smith, N. T., Ocean City, N. J. 

Smith, D., Asbur}' ave. above Seventeenth st. 

Smitheman, G. T., Asbur}- ave. above First st. 

Somers, M. S., i\sbury ave. below Eighth st. 

Somers, J. S., Wesley ave. above Seventh st. 

Somers, E., 424 West ave. 

Snow, Mrs. T., Central ave. below Eighth st. 

Snow, L., Central ave. below Twelfth st. 

Smalley, C. F., Ninth st. and Boardwalk. 

Snyder, F., Asbury ave. above Eighth st. 

Sooy, R. R., " Brighton," Seventh st. and Ocean ave. 

Sooy, N., West ave. below Fourth st. 

Spencer, W. A., Wesley ?ive. and Ninth st. 

Spears, J., 704 Central ave. 

Souder, L., 413 Fifth st. 

Sowden, J., 450 West ave. 

Stewart, W. C, 626 Central ave. 

Stewart, R., Ocean City, N. J. 

Steynmyer, J., 221 xAsbur}- ave. 



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Stetzer, W. M., Wesley ave, below Second st. 

Stetzer, C, Ocean ave. above Fourth st. 

Stephenson, L., Asbury ave, below Seventh st. 

Stephenson, T., Asbun- ave. below Seventh st. 

Stokes, E. C, Ocean City, N. J. 

Stroubel, J. C, Asburv' ave. below Eleventh st. 

Stearn, C. B., Ocean City, N. J. 

Steelman, H,, cor. Fourth st. and Asbury ave. 

Steelman, H. G., Central ave. above Eighth st. 

Steelman, J. C, 1259 Asbury ave. 

Steelman, M,, 911 Asbury ave. 

Still, J., West ave. below Ninth st. 

Still, L., West ave. above Fourth st. 

Stites, R. B., 759 Asbury ave. 

Stonehill, W., 1159 Asbury ave. 

Sutton, H. C, Central ave. below Eighth st. 



Taggart, J., 12 12 Central ave. 

Thatcher, J. W., M. D., 728 Ocean ave. 

Thatcher, J., cor. Thirteenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Thegan, W., Central ave. above First st. 

Thomas, J., 1228 Asbur}- ave. 

Thomas, E. R., Prof., Wesley ave. above Eighth st. 

Thomas, A. B., cor. Fifteenth st. and Asbury ave. 

Thompson, R. M., Simpson ave. below First st. 

Thorn, R. H., store and res., cor. Eighth st. and Asbury ave. 

Thorn, T. J., Asbury ave. below Eighth st. 

Tilton, C. jVL, Bay ave. above Fourth st. 

Townsend, A. C, Thirty-fourth st, and Wesley ave. 

Torchiana, F. J., Ninth st. and Wesley ave. 

Turpin, J. B., Rev., Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Tuttle, C. P., D. D. S., Asbury ave. above First st. 



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Vangilder, H., 141 9 Asbury ave. 

Vannaman, D. L., Asbury ave. above Fourth st. 

Voss, J., Central ave. below Seventh st. 

Waggoner, J. S., M. D., store and res., 731 Asbury ave. 

Walton, B. F., West ave. below Fourteenth st. 

Warner, F. B., 1428 Asbury ave. 

Watson, C. H., West ave. above Eleventh st. 

Wallace, S., Central ave. below Eleventh st. 

Wallace, L., 444 Asbury ave. 

Warner, L., West ave. below Fourth st. 

Weisbrod, H. F., Wesley ave. above Ninth st. 

Weiss, G. E., Ocean City, N. J. 

Weldie, W. R., Asbury ave. bel. Twelfth st. 

Wert, C. M., store and res., 713 Asbury ave. 

Wert, A., M. D., Ocean City, N. J. 

Weston, E. C, D. D. S., Ocean City, N. J. 

White, G. G., Central ave. below Eleventh st. 

White, J. M., Asbury ave. and Eighth st. 

Whitaker, W. C, 1230 Asbury ave. 

Whiteside, F. R., 1236 Asbury ave. 

Wick, d. Ocean City, N. J. 

Winters, W. R., Ocean City, N. J. 

Willard, E. M., Asbury ave. and First st. 

Wilson, S. P., Ocean ave. below Eighth st. 

Willets, J. S., captain, cor Seventh st. and Central ave. 

Willets, W., cor. Seventh st. and Central ave. 

Willets, S., West ave. above Seventh st. 

Williams, T. P., Asbury ave. above First st. 

Williams, C. J., 423 Asbury ave. 



66 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Wilcox, J, N., 842 Central ave. 
Willotigliby, W., West ave. above First st. 
Wilson, W. D., Ocean City, N. J. 
Wimer, T. B., Ocean City, N. J. 
Wilson, W., Ocean ave. below Eighth st. 
Wood, H. M., cor. First st. and West ave. 
Woodward, O. H., Asbury ave. above Fourth st. 
Woodhull, S. C, Ocean City, N. J. 
Wolf, J., West ave. above Tenth st. 
Woldford J., Asbury ave. above Seventh st. 



Young, M. E., Central ave. and Seventh st. 
Yoger, F. S., Ocean City, N. J. 



Zeigler, E., 717 Central ave. 

Zane, W. S., 1208 Asbury ave. 

Zurn, J. M., Central ave. below Sixth st. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 67 

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, 

....804 AsBURY Ave. 

Special attention given to the treatment ^ 

of Diseases of the Nose and Throat, <^®-^> 

and Diseases of Women and Children. k 



„ .„^ 8 TO 10 A. M. 

OF FICE HOURS: 2 to 4.30 P. M. 

'^■^^^■^ 7.30 TO 9.30 P. M. 



H. H. T555jg;i^pea| Estate Office. 

MSBURY AUE. ABOUE SEUENTH ST., 
Ocean City, N. J. 

Kurnislieca Houses a specialty. 

Properties bought, sold and exchaneed. 

Moneys loaned on first mortgage, etc. 



<C;;^ Established 1881 ^^ 

F. E. CHAMPION, 



DEALER IN 



ICC ' --" Coir'^- -«: Wood 



All Lengths. 
Cut to Order. 



OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, 636 ASBDRY AVENUE, 

Ocean City, New Jersey. 



68 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

^^2^1. S. CHAMPION, 

FOR 

Milt Cream, Ice Cream aod Soft Drinks. 

THE LEADING MILK DEALERS IN OCEAN CITY, 

CHOICE ALDERNEY DAIRIES. 

All kinds of Soft Drinks and Confectionery, 

BUTTER AND EOOS, 

Established 1881 . Qor. SevGiith and Asbury. 



A7VM01L.ESA.1L.E A-JVD IIET.A.IL. 



T. C. HUTCHINSON, M. D., 



(HOMOEOPATH 1ST.) 

...Asbury Ave. below Tenth St., 
OCEAN CITY, N. J. 



RESIDENT PHYSICIAN. LATE OP PHILADA., PA. 

Twelfth St. and Asbury Ave., Ocean City, N. J., 

...DEALER IN... 

Meats, Flour. Provisions, Fancy Groceries, 

AND FINE IMPORTED TABLE SPECIALTIES. 

Also a full line of high grade Teas, Coffees and Pure Spices constantly on hand. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 69 

...Ocean City Laundry... 

822 ASBURY AUE., OCEAN GITY, N. d. 

Laundry Work in all its branches, 
Lace Curtains and Floor Linens a Specialty. . 



Clean I^inen. Prompt Delivery. 



T. E. DARBY, Proprietor. 



New House. Ojfen All the Year, 

New tiirniture ^ '^^^Delightful Location. . 

COR. EIGHTH AND CENTRAL AVE. 

Terms:— $1.56 and $2 per day. $8. $9 and $^0 P®"^ week. 
SPEOTATj RATF^S for the SEASOJf. 

MISS MIA-TTIB A- BOITI-E, ^Proprietress. 



Established 1881 . 

WESLEY HOUSE, 

*mm WITHIN A SQUARE OF THE BEACH. 
Thoroughly Renovated Open all the year. Finest accommodations.^ 

under entirely new management. • " """ 

MRS. V. S. ROBINSON, 

Cor. Eighth St. and Wesley Ave., OCEAN CITY, N J 



CARLOS S. CORSON, 

Ocean City Meat Market. 

FrGsh and Salt Meats always on hand* 

COXJNTR.Y PRODUCE DIRECT EROM THE FARM- 

Poultry, Butter and Eggs a Specialty. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDP: BOOK. 



JOSEPH F. HAND, 



ESTlliiTES flNlSBED OH AIL KINDS OF WORK. 



Prompt attention given to both Contract Work and Jobbing, 



SA.TISKACT10N GU ARANTEKD. 



Residence, Cor. West Ave. and i2th St. 

Estimates Cheerfully Given. Jobbing a Specialty. 

J. N.JOHNSON, 

Sanitary Plumbing and Gas Fitting, 

730 ASBURY AVENUE, 
OCEAN CITY, N. J. 

....12th ST. MARKET.... 

For the best meats in Ocean City, fresh or salt ; 

for fresh truck of every kind and the best country Butter, Eggs 

and Poultry, go to the above place. Nothing stale or unsaleable on hand at any 

time. A full line of Fine Groceries, Table Specialties and 

Canned Goods of every description. 

GIVE US A TRIAL AND SAVE xMONEY. 

The wagon will call at your door to take orders and deliver goods. 
12SXXI ST. JVI-^lFIKET. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



R. HOWARD THORN, 



DEALER IX 



puroiture, {jw\^ aod f\i\\\%, 

HARDWARE AND CUTLERY 

STOVES, HEATERS AND RANGES 

..iSBo* Crookgry and Glasjswaro 

In fact everything necessary to the furnishing of a house. 



You will find ail goods as represented, 

/\nd prices as low as any, quality considered. 



POIN'T FOROETT THE FI^AOK. 

801 to 805 ASBURY AVENUE. 

Goods delivered free of chiarge. 



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OCKAN CITY GUIDK BOOK. 



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VlectPic ]Kail\Vay. 



Take the cars at the pier of the Atlantic Coast Steamboat 
Company, at the foot of Second Street, on Great Egg Harbor 
Bay. This road runs north for a short distance, over the waters 
at high tide, thence in a direct line across the city in full view 
of Great Egg Harbor Inlet till it reaches the Ocean strand, 
which it follows the remainder of the route. 

That this is a delightful ride need scarcely be added. 

Already patronized by thousands, its popularit}- has but 
begun and the Electric Railway forms the chief attraction of 
the citv. 






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OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 73 

=s^RUSSELL & ADAMS, 

813 Asbury Avenue. 



Bathing Suits 
Bathing Shoes 
Bathing Caps 
Outing Shirts 
Nobby Hats and 
for Boys and 


Caps 
Girls 


Stationery 
Souvenirs 
Jewelry 
Eye Glasses 
Dress Goods 


Overshoes 

Lawn Tennis Shoes 
Sandals 

Russets and Bicycle 
Shoes 










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Between 7tli St. and 8th St., Asbury Ave. 

If you want the best prepared Salt Fish for Winter use, 

put up In large or small quantities ; we can fill the bill. 

Fresh Glams and Hard and Soft Shell Grabs 

Give us a Trial Order. Goods Delivered. 



JOHN SCHENK, 

..Fine (©igai^s and Sobaggo.. 

FULL UNE OF PIPES AND SMOKING TOBACCO. 

Til A.©BUr2,Y A.VENXJE. 



W. STONEHILL. ., .v r-r,o ^- °- '^^^"^ 

PLASTERERS AND BRICKLAYERS. 



STONEHILL & ADAMS, 

Plastering, Range Setting, Bricklaying, etc. 

ALL WORK IN MASON LINE PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. 



Ocean City, N. J. 



74 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

B. R. SMITH & SONS, 

Tlie Piooeer Paper Hangers, 



Decorators, Grainers and Sign 
Writers of Ocean City. 



A large and varied stock of Wall Paper and 
Decorations on hand at pupular Prices. 



All Work Arlislically Doae, M All fori GDaranteel. 

B. R. SMITH & SONS, 
1046 Asbury Ave.. Ocean City, N. J. 

ADAM DEMARIS, 

iiio; Cartiiif , Gradiiio', of all tiiids, 

0^ p. p^ 1 

8n\K St. and ?i3est ^vb., 

NEAR THE R. R. STATION. 

E. B. STITES & CO., 

Dealer in Pine, Cedar and Hemlock Buildingf Lumber, Siding, Flooring, 

Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings, Brackets, Shingles, 

Pickets, Lath, Lime, Cement. 




Orders taken by Telephone at residence, 759 Asbury Ave. 



Cor. 12th St. and West Ave., Ocean City, N. J. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 75 

•"^- ^ dOHN R. KENDRIGK, Pres'T and Treas. 

THE TRADES PUBLISHING CO., 

Art Printers, Desipers aod Engravers, 

Fine Commercial Printing and 

LlTHOGHAPHlNG A SPECIALTY. 



''arelTn.SrfJouroffiTe''' OUR FACILITIES ARE UNEXCELLED. 



113 North 12th St., Philadelphia, 



B. Y. ABBOTT, M. D. W. G. ABBOTT. 

Abbotts' TKarinaci]^ 

Cor. yth St. and Asbury Ave. 

Fresh Drugs, Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, ^ 

Sovenirs, Fancy Stationery and Cigars 

PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED DAY OR NIGHT. 
Crushed Fruits at the Soda Fountain. NIGHT BELL, 



S^or^g PaVen^eqt... 



B^'ratry,:;:!^ Bias stone Flagging. 

ALSO 12 AND 16 INCH CURBINO. 

Orders Solicited. Work Guaranteed. Lowest Prices. 

JOHN McAIvEESE, 

Successor to H. GERLACH. 

1409 Asbury Ave., Ocean City, N. J. 



76 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

SPECIA.L RATES FOlt THE JSE-AlSOIV. 



J. H. SLAWTER, Proprietor." 



PARK HOTEL, 



Corner Sixth Street and Central Avenue, 

FACING THE CITY PARK. 

New House. Electric Lights. New Furniture. Finest Sanitary Regulations. 



ADAMS' CASINO - 

...9th St. and the Boardwalk. 

FIVE SHUFFLEBOARD TABLES. 

CANDY KITCHEN. 

CAROUSELLE. 

425 M\% Chairs and High Arm Chairs on liaised Platforin 

FOR THE ACCOMMODATION OF GUESTS. 

,.. Thoroughly ventilated... 
and brilliantly illuminated. 

SHELL STORE ADJOINLNG. 

THE MOST POPULAR RESORT ALONG THE BOARDWALK. 



ESTABLISHKO IN 1883. 



MORRIS & CHRISTIAN, 
First Meat Market in Ocean City, 

TSS -aSBUmr AVE. 
Pl^BSH Fish GONST^ANrFLY ON HAND. 

DELIVERED AT SHORTEST NOTICE. 



READING RAILROAD 

*' The Royal Route to the Sea." 

ONLY DOUBLE-XRACK LINK 

BETWEKN 

PHILADELPHIA AND ATLANTIC CITY. 



The Famous Fast Flyers always on Time. 
Carry their Passengers Safely and Surely between 

PHILADELPHIA 

Chestnut St. Wharf or South St. Wharf, 

And the Depot in the very Centre of 

ATLi^lNTTrC CITY. 



A feature of this Line is its 
Hard-coal Locomotives. 

NO SMOKE! NO SOOT! NO CINDERS ! ....SPEED. 



OITI-T DOITBLiB TRACK 1-IITE. 

_ _ crin^X/ ^ »^ Two Stations in Philadelphia. 

oAr ll 1 Y,^ ■fc-J^i^' Six Stations in Atlantic City. 



The Coaches composing the " FLYERS " are new and of the latest and most 

elegant designs. The Pullman Drawing-room and Buffet 

Parlor Cars are models of Palatial luxury. 



Tl^ Qceaq Gity 
c^ssoeiatior?. 



REVy. S. WESLEY LAKE, President, Bridgeton, tS. d. 

rev/. e. b. lake, superintendent and secretary, ocean gity, n. d. 

Dr. G. E. PALEIS, Treasurer, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa 

The Model Chrisda|]^easideJ^^sort^ 

OCEAN CITY 

Offers the finest facilities for rest, health and recreation. 

Three luindred acres, comprising the entire cit}-, under 
deeds forever prohibitino- the manufacture and sale of intoxicat- 
ing- drinks. 

Excellent fishing, boating and gunning. 

The beach is one of the best and safest on the Atlantic 
coast. 

Artesian wells furnish an abundant supply of pure water 
through the New City Water Works. 

Electric street railways and electric lighting and a good 
sewerage system. 

Niimerous trains daily afford excellent means of trans- 
portation. 

The above Association has lots for sale at various prices and 
in all parts of the city. 

Apply to the Superintendent, Rev. E. B. Lake, or to any 
other officer of the association. 



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